Bluesky reveals recent outage was caused by major DDoS attack
- Bluesky confirms 24‑hour outage was caused by a DDoS attack on August 17 2026
- Researchers linked it to Iraq‑313 Team, using DiamWall‑based DDoS‑for‑hire infrastructure
- Company upgraded defenses; no details yet on attackers, traffic origin, or user impact
The recent outage on Bluesky was the result of a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, the company has confirmed.
Bluesky is a decentralized social media platform which is rather similar to X, since it allows users to post short messages and multimedia. Its key difference is the Authenticated Transfer Protocol (AT Protocol) upon which it was built, and which allows users and developers more control compared to other social networks.
On Sunday, August 16 2026, users started reporting problems accessing Bluesky. On Reddit, users from the US, UK, France, and other countries, said they were having issues loading the Bluesky website and app, or accessing their feeds. A day later, on August...
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