Hacker Attack Shuts Down Twitter

Company blog says site is 'denfending against a denial-of-service attack'

NEW YORK - A hacker attack shut down Twitter on Thursday morning, and Facebook also said it was "looking into" possible site problems.

Twitter said in its status blog Thursday that it was "defending against a denial-of-service attack," in which hackers command scores of computers to a single site at the same time, preventing legitimate traffic from getting through.

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