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The Bluesky website and app are still available suffering Friday after the disruption to operations that chief operating officer Rose Wang experienced depending on to an ongoing cyberattack.
Thursday evening, the social media company it has been confirmed that a “very serious Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) threat” was to blame for the outage, which began on April 15 around 8:40 pm ET.
Distributed denial-of-service Attacks often involve hacking software or websites with massive amounts of internet traffic that is meant to overload and bring down its servers online. Although such cyber attacks do not involve company intrusion, these incidents can be disruptive to the company and its users.
In a post on Bluesky’s account, the company shared the cause of the problem and noted that the attack is “disrupting our services, with users experiencing temporary disruptions to their feed, notifications, threads, and search.”
Bluesky said he has not seen any evidence of unauthorized access to private information, however.
When reached for comment on Thursday, Bluesky only pointed us to status.bsky.app page and account (@status.bsky.app) updates. The company did not provide an estimated time for repairs.
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Bluesky said it would provide further updates on the attack and mitigation by 1pm ET on Friday.
Because the download is slow, the Bluesky website and software will sometimes load, slowly, and sometimes show error messages.
For example, switching to a particular feed within the app may display a message saying, “This feed is receiving a lot of traffic and is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later. Message from server: Limit Exceeded.”
Popular feeds such as Discover or the official Bluesky Team feed often see this problem, as do user feeds.
In some cases, such as when trying to visit a user’s profile, the site will display an error message, forcing you to refresh and try again.
said Bluesky protocol engineer Bryan Newbold around 3:46 a.m. ET Wednesday, “oof, our meetings are getting really rough tonight.”
In particular, the service disruption affects Bluesky, but other areas, such as Blackskywho run their base on the protocol that governs social networks, is still working.
Blacksky’s team told TechCrunch that Bluesky’s exit has led to a “significant increase” in the. migration requests from Bluesky users in the last 12 hours, viz users, devsand other ATmosphere founders such as Sebastian and Eurosky they have been promoting his works.
It was clear that the Bluesky team was busy this week dealing with these issues, as one message on its website contained a typo: “investigating what happened in one of our (sic).”
