Hackers Take Credit for Twitter Outages

Twitter has been up and down throughout Thursday -- and now a group of hackers known as UGNazi is taking credit for causing the outages.

"We just #TangoDown'd twitter.com for 40 minutes worldwide! #UGnazi," reads a tweet sent from @UG on Thursday afternoon that was directed at accounts associated with the more well-known and widespread Anonymous hacker collective, as well as the media outlet Russia Today.

#TangoDown is a term adopted by Anonymous and other hackers and botnet owners referring to a successful attack against a targeted website. Outages are most often caused by some combination of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks and botnets. Both methods overload a target…
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