UK largest hosting firm 123-Reg hit with massive DDoS attack

 123-Reg domain registrar has become the latest victim of a DDoS attack shutting off its users access to their email accounts as well as websites.
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 The domain registrar which is the largest in the UK, went on to Twitter to announce the attack. 

We believe a DDoS attack has just started, we are working out remediation options and impact at present. Updates to follow.

— 123 Reg (@123reg) January 6, 2017

The DDoS attack was resolved at 1pm. We would like to apologise for any inconvenience caused.

— 123 Reg (@123reg) January 6, 2017

 Last year, 123-Reg suffered two major DDoS attacks. The first DDoS attack on the domain registrar took place in April while the second took place in August and this time it was hit with a massive 30Gps DDoS junk which sunk the site.
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