Twitter: No, We Were Not Hacked

Twitter's record-breaking downtime was not the result of a successful activist hack, contrary to one group's claim to responsibility, according to a blog post from the microblogging network Thursday.

"This wasnt due to a hack or our new office or Euro 2012 or GIF avatars, as some have speculated today," Mazen Rawashdeh, Twitter's vice president of engineering, wrote in a post to the company's official blog.

Earlier Thursday, a group of hackers known as UGNazi said it was the force behind the outages, which were Twitter's longest in eight months. In an email to Reuters, UGNazi said it targeted Twitter with a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack because of the company's suppo…
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