The popular RSS reader Feedly has been down for several hours this morning as the result of a distributed denial of service attack, which the perpetrators are allegedly using to extort money from the company. Feedly posted details of the attack on its blog to explain the sites downtime, saying that its been in contact with law enforcement as well other victims of the attack. The attacker is trying to extort us money to make it stop [sic], Feedly writes on its blog. Many have noted that Evernote was also briefly taken down last night from a denial of service attack, but its unclear if the two attacks are related.
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