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Eugene

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Wed May 16, 2012, 07:41 PM May 2012

The Pirate Bay hit by DDoS attack

Source: BBC

16 May 2012 Last updated at 17:16 GMT

The Pirate Bay hit by DDoS attack

File-sharing website The Pirate Bay (TPB) has been hit by a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack.

The site has been largely inaccessible for the last 24 hours, and the service is intermittent in the UK.

The Pirate Bay has confirmed the attack on its Facebook page, saying that it did not know who was behind it, although it "had its suspicions".

A provider of DDoS defence systems said that it was unlikely that the attack came from hacking group Anonymous.

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