FCC hit with DDoS attacks after John Oliver takes on net neutrality

John Oliver urged viewers to flood FCC with comments in support of net neutrality. The FCC website was hit with a series of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. The attacks would have prevented net neutrality supporters from filing comments. Oliver’s commentary had been viewed more than 900,000 times on YouTube Sunday night. The DDoS attacks “tied up the servers and prevented them from responding to people attempting to submit comments,” a FCC spokesman says. An FCC spokesman declined to speculate on the motivation for the attacks.”]

Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/3195408/fcc-hit-with-ddos-attacks-after-john-oliver-takes-on-net-neutrality.html