A major Internet outage in China on Tuesday that rerouted users to the U.S. website of a company which helps people get around Beijings censorship may have been due to a hacking attack, the official Xinhua news service reported. The state-run China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) said in a microblog post that the outage, which lasted for several hours, was due to a malfunction in Chinas top-level domain name root servers on Tuesday afternoon. Chinese Internet users were rerouted to a U.S.-based website run by Dynamic Internet Technology, a company that sells anti-censorship web services tailored for Chinese users, including a product that enables the retrieval of microblog posts deleted by Chinese censors. Dynamic Internet Technology did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
China Internet outage could have been hacking attack: Xinhua
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