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Bush Campaign: DDoS Attack Investigated for Website Outage

Calendar Oct 21, 2004 • User Avatar Anthony Pell
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security advisory DDoS investigation website security campaign outage Republican National Committee
Web sites for President Bush's campaign and the Republican National Committee suffered outages for several hours on Wednesday. . . . NEW YORK (AP)--Web sites for President Bush's campaign and the Republican National Committee suffered outages for several hours on Wednesday.

It was not immediately clear whether a systems failure or a hacking attack was to blame. Campaign and committee officials would only say they were investigating.

The sites began experiencing problems about 11 a.m., according to two companies that monitor Internet performance.

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