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Collection of links related to the DNS Issue that affected LinkedIn and many others on June 19, 2013.
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Updates from Companies Involved

Network Solutions

From https://www.networksolutions.com/blog/2013/06/important-update-for-network-solutions-customers-experiencing-website-issues/ :

In the process of resolving a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) incident on Wednesday night, the websites of a small number of Network Solutions customers were inadvertently affected for up to several hours. We are proactively working with these customers and have resolved most issues, none of which involved malicious activity. No confidential data was compromised, including passwords, credit card information, or cookies. If you are a Network Solutions customer and are experiencing problems with your website, please call us at (866) 391-4357 so we can help to quickly resolve the issue. Thank you for your patience and support as we work to fully resolve this situation.

Confluence-Networks

From http://www.confluence-networks.com/ :

Confluence Networks is a Colocation & Network service provider having tie-ups with data centers across various geographical regions. We don't host any services ourselves. Starting few hours ago, we received reports about some sites (including linkedin.com) pointing to IPs allotted to our ranges. We are in touch with the affected parties & our customer to identify the root cause of this event.

Note that it has already been verified that this issue was caused due to a human error and there was NO security related issue caused by the same. More details will be provided shortly.

Other Relevant Discussions or Links

Sites Impacted

  • linkedin.com
  • weather.com
  • cbs.com (rumored)
  • Fidelity (rumored)
  • Yelp (rumored)
  • USPS (rumored)
  • craigslist (rumored)
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Please comment if you have additional links to add.

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Added Internet Storm Center link and craigslist as rumored site.

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Added Network Solutions update.

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