Bitly Suffers DDoS Attack, All Links Working Now

Bitly, the popular URL shortening tool, suffered a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on Wednesday, which impacted portions of its website.

The company confirmed the attack with the following statement on the main page of its site on Wednesday morning: "Bitly is currently working to mitigate a DDOS attack. Some parts of the website may be partially available as a result." Bitly also informed users of the attack with a tweet

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We are currently working to mitigate a DDoS attack. Some of our site may be unavailable, but we're working to restore full functionality.

— Bitly (@Bitly) February 26, 2014 Read more...

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