Seeking Alpha experienced a notice incident on October 21, 2016, lasting 2h 10m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Update timeline
- investigating Oct 21, 2016, 09:01 PM UTC
Even though it is out of our control, we want our valued users to understand that we are aware that we have been affected by these attacks which started earlier today and continue now. We are in "good company" - other sufferers include New York Times, Heroku, Spotify, Reddit, GitHub, and PagerDuty. Our DNS and CDN partners are working to mitigate the ill effects. Anybody wishing to find out more technical details, search for DNS DDOS in Google News. We'll update this incident report when the attack is over.
- resolved Oct 21, 2016, 11:12 PM UTC
We have been notified by our DNS provider that the incident has been resolved.