Reuters:
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Twitter and Facebook, two of the Web's hottest hangouts, suffered service problems on Thursday, raising speculation that they had come under a pre-planned coordinated attack by hackers.
Twitter, the popular micro-blogging service, was knocked down by a malicious attack that prevented people from accessing its website for several hours on Thursday.
Facebook members saw delays logging in and posting to their online profiles. The social networking site is working with Twitter and Google Inc to determine whether there was foul play, a person familiar with the company said.
The Twitter outage follows a wave of similar cyber attacks in July that disrupted access to several high-profile U.S. and South Korean websites, including the White House site. South Korea's spy agency said at the time that North Korea might have been behind the attacks.
posted by: gqpartner
As you may know, PayPal suffered from downtime yesterday. Overall, the problems lasted approximately 4.5 hours
before being fully resolved. Since a significant number of e-commerce
sites and online services handle some or all of their transactions
through PayPal, how much money did the PayPal outage end up costing its
users?
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