By BBC News Friday, 7 August 2009
High-profile websites including Google, Facebook and Twitter have been targeted by hackers in what is described as a "massively co-ordinated attack". Other sites such as the blogging platform Live Journal were also reportedly targeted. Twitter was taken offline for more than two hours whilst Facebook's service was "degraded", according to the firms. Google said it had defended its sites and was now working with the other firms to investigate the attack. "Google systems prevented substantive impact to our services," the company said in a statement. The company has not confirmed which services were targeted in the attack, but it is thought that its e-mail service Gmail and and video site YouTube were under fire. "We are aware that a handful of non-Google sites were impacted by [an]... attack this morning, and are in contact with some affected companies to help investigate this attack," the company said. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone wrote on its own blog: "Twitter has been working closely with other companies and services affected by what appears to be a single, massively co-ordinated attack."
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