md5! gizmodo Deadspin Gizmodo Jalopnik Jezebel Kotaku Lifehacker Sploid Paleofuture io9 Field Guide factually This Is Probably Why Half the Internet Shut Down Today [Update: It’s Happening Again] William Turton Today 8:36am Filed to: dns twitter reddit spotify 510 12 Edit Promote Dismiss Undismiss Hide Share to Kinja Toggle Conversation tools Go to permalink Image: Getty Twitter, Spotify and Reddit, and a huge swath of other websites were down or screwed up this morning. This was happening as hackers unleashed a large distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on the servers of Dyn , a major DNS host. It’s probably safe to assume that the two situations are related. Advertisement Update 12:28 PM EST: Dyn says it is investigating yet another attack, causing the same massive outages experienced this morning. Based on emails from Gizmodo readers, this new w...