Facebook Outage - NorthEast (FIOS)

Email Received about 40 Minutes after Outage

Twitter Messaging about Facebook Outage

Some users are seeing Facebook outages as the time of this posting. The Facebook Twitter account is silent on the matter.  Posted at 12:40 Eastern.

UPDATE Service was restored by 12:50 in this locale.

UPDATE The email message reproduced above was received at 12:59.

Sony, Blizzard, Others Live Suffer Weekend DDoS Attacks | Reuters

A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack rendered the Sony Playstation network unusable over the weekend. Reuters also reported that Blizzard's Battle.net, whose servers support the World of Warcraft MMOG, and Grinding Gear Games may also have been affected. Some claiming responsibility for the attack said they had also attempted to weaken Microsoft XBox Live services, though that effort appeared to have had limited results.

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Sony says PlayStation network back online, user information safe after attack | Reuters