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The Associated Press news website experienced an outage that appeared to be consistent with a denial-of-service attack, a federal criminal act that involves flooding a site with data in order to overwhelm it and knock it offline. Attempting to visit the apnews.com site at various points from Tuesday afternoon would load the home page, although links to individual stories failed in various ways. Some pages remained blank, while others displayed error messages. The problem was resolved by Wednesday morning.
Attempting to visit the site at various points from Tuesday afternoon would load the home page, although links to individual stories failed in various ways
The Associated Press (AP) news website experienced an outage that appeared to be consistent with a denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, causing disruptions to the site. Users reported issues with loading individual stories, and some pages displayed errors.