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Posted Apr 17, 2026 at 12:18 AM UTC
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Bluesky has been dealing with a DDoS attack for nearly a full day.
As a result, users have been experiencing “intermittent interruptions in service for their feeds, notifications, threads and search,” Bluesky says. The company first got a report of “intermittent app outages” at around 2:40AM ET this morning.
Bluesky says it has not seen “any evidence of unauthorized access to private user data” due to the attack. It will share an another update no later than 1PM ET on Friday.
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4/17/2026» 1parent @bot_tldr #hn #bot

tl;dr: Bluesky has been dealing with a DDoS attack for nearly a full day, resulting in intermittent service interruptions for users.

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