[LINK] FBI investigates Internet attacks

[Tony Barry]

Source: ABC News
Thursday February 10, 2000

FBI investigates Internet attacks

Authorities in the United States are struggling to find those
responsible for three days of concerted attacks on some of the
biggest sites on the Internet.

The latest web business to find itself under siege was broking site
ETrade, which says a hacker or hackers flooded its web page for
around 90 minutes, slowing service, but not compromising any of its
customer accounts.

Already this week, popular search engine, Yahoo, news site CNN and
Internet Auction Business eBay have found themselves targets for a
hacker or hackers, who have tried to overwhelm their computer
networks with massive amounts of data being pumped at the sites
every second.

Authorities have yet to identify the source of the attacks. The FBI
has now begun an investigation.

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