LinkedIn Recovering From Outage Due to Possible DNS Hijack

LinkedIn is recovering from a DNS issue that sent visitors to a different web site for an hour Wednesday night

The issue, which is now resolved for most users, rerouted the traffic to a domain sales page.

LinkedIn, a popular professional social network, acknowledged the issue in a tweet, but did not elaborate

Our site is now recovering for some members. We determined it was a DNS issue, we're continuing to work on it. Thanks for your patience.

— LinkedIn (@LinkedIn) June 20, 2013

However, App.net co-founder Bryan Berg claims there's more to the issue.

"LinkedIn just got DNS hijacked, and for the last hour or so, all of your traffic has been sent to a network hosted by this company [confluence-networks.com]. And they don't require SSL, so if you tried to visit, your browser sent your long-lived session cookies in plaintext," Berg wrote