By Brendan McDermid
The website of stock exchange operator NASDAQ is offline after being attacked by an onslaught of distributed denial of service, or DDoS attacks.
A NASDAQ OMX Group spokesman confirmed to Reuters Tuesday evening that NASDAQ.com was the victim of a series of DDoS attacks starting late Monday, and, by Tuesday, the site was alternating between being available and being offline.
“The website wasn’t hacked, nobody got any information. What they did was try to block access for our users,” NASDAQ spokesman Joseph Christinat adds to the agency. Christinat adds that the impact has so far only affected the websites availability to online users and has not impacted stocks.
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