A massive distributed denial of service attack recently caused downtime at LiveJournal.

"The outages began on Tuesday, but the company didn't release a statement until yesterday when it confirmed it was the target of an attack," writes Softpedia's Lucian Constantin. "'We can now publicly disclose that we have been experiencing a large-scale DDoS attack the last two days, which has been the reason for the site issues most users have been experiencing,' the company said."

"LiveJournal is one of the oldest blogging platforms, dating back to 1999, and has over 30 million registered accounts," Constantin writes. "The service remains hugely popular in Russia which accounts for nearly half of its audience."

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