I've just discovered this frustrating DDoS (distributed denial of service) cyber attack wave. This attack floods servers causign them to become largely unresponsive. In my case, with Netflix, for example, I can view the list of programmes and films, but when I go to load something, it's a no go. A DDoS attack, as far as I know, isn't about getting data, it's about causing a disruption in service, for whatever idiotic reason.

From what I've personally seen and read, it's so far affected Amazon, Spotify, Twitter, Netflix, PayPal, Reddit, SoundCloud, PSN, possibly XBL, PayPal, and I've read some report it has affected bank sites too, although mine works fine. I'm not sure what else, but from what I've read, it's getting to a lot of sites.

This doesn't appear to be a hoax or anything. It's all over the Internet. Hopefully it'll be sorted soon, but this is quite disconcerting, to cause so much hassle... I wonder how much companies are being stressed right now. x_x