Watch America’s Internet Get Wiped Out by a Massive DDoS Attack

By William Turton Published October 21, 2016, 3:25 pm ET

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Today a massive DDoS attack took out a major piece of internet infrastructure, causing huge outages across the United States and Europe. Watch it spread like a disease across the States.

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