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FCC claims overnight DDoS attacks

Fedscoop: The Federal Communications Commission claims it was the victim of several distributed denial of service attacks causing delays for users of its Electronic Comment Filing System.

At about midnight Sunday night, the FCC experienced “deliberate attempts by external actors to bombard the FCC’s comment system with a high amount of traffic to our commercial cloud host,” according to a statement Monday afternoon from CIO David Bray.

The alleged DDoS attack took place after HBO’s “Last Week Tonight” host and comedian John Oliver once again took on net neutrality in a segment Sunday night, urging viewers to visit the FCC’s website and use the ECFS to share their displeasure with a newly proposed rollback of net neutrality rules.

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