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Benedict Collins

Russia blames mass tech outages on DDoS attack

Russian flag on a laptop.

The Russian government has blamed the widespread outage of several popular mobile applications on a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.

The outage affected a number of messaging apps and online services, including Telegram, WhatsApp, Skype, Wikipedia, Steam, Discord, Twitch, and VKontakte - a Russian social network.

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