Bitly Suffers DDoS Attack, All Links Working Now

Bit.ly said Wednesday it was fighting off a DDoS attack.

Bitly, the popular URL shortening tool, suffered a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on Wednesday, which impacted portions of its website.

The company confirmed the attack with the following statement on the main page of its site on Wednesday morning: "Bitly is currently working to mitigate a DDOS attack. Some parts of the website may be partially available as a result." Bitly also informed users of the attack with a tweet.

It's unclear whether the DDoS attack also impacted links shared using Bitly or just the website itself.

By 9:22 a.m. ET, Bitly had issued a new statement on its site: "All links are working after mitigating an earlier DDOS attack. Some link metrics may still be delayed."

Reps for Bitly did not immediately respond to our request for details on the attack.

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