Time Warner Cable blames DDoS attack for spotty service - Ars Technica
Thu, Feb 26th, 2009
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If you're a Time Warner Cable subscriber who has been having trouble with your Internet service lately, the company wants you to know why. In a letter to Ars, Jeff Simmermon, the director for Digital Communications at TWC, told us "We've been having serious service problems in SoCal related to hacker activity." The company has posted an official statement on the issue with a few more details, but the culprits' identities are as yet unknown (or being kept out of the public while the situation is under investigation.)
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