Feedly suffers DDoS attack as perpetrator tries to extort money

If you’ve been having issues accessing your RSS feed via Feedly today, well, there’s a good reason for that. Feedly has announced that it’s currently suffering a DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack, with the perpetrator(s) attempting to garner money from the company to make it stop. “We refused to give in and are working with our network providers to mitigate the attack as best as we can,” explains Edwin Khodabakchian, founder and CEO of Feedly. Feedly is assuring its users that their data remains safe, and access will be restored once the “attack is mitigated.” Other companies have been affected by...



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