Websites hit by cyber attack

A cyber attack crashed Twitter and Spotify and a host of other websites for many users throughout yesterday.

Paypal and Reddit were also affected. All the sites are customers of a company called Dyn, which they use to help users find their sites online.

In quick succession yesterday, Dyn was swamped by two attacks that made the sites of its customers hard to reach.

Dyn tweeted yesterday evening that “services have been restored to normal” after around an hour of disruption. However, problems remained last night.