Twitter, Reddit, Spotify, and SoundCloud were sites hacked earlier today.
The Boston Globe, The New York Times, Github, Airbnb, Vox Media sites, Shopify, and others were also affected.
Netflix and PayPal users have also complained about the problems they are experiencing of recent, the Times reporters said.
The sites were offline and interfered with amongst a big "distributed denial of service" (DDoS) attack on the servers of Dyn, a company that ensures Internet traffic gets where it is trying to go.
According to Dyn the problem affected mainly users in the Eastern region, United States and that services were restored to normal around 9:20 a.m. ET.
Dyn hosts Domain Name Services (DNS), which are often compared to a phone book or map of the Internet.
Dyn said earlier about the problem: "Starting at 11:10 UTC on October 21st-Friday 2016 we began monitoring and mitigating a DDoS attack against our Dyn Managed DNS infrastructure. Some customers may experience increased DNS query latency and delayed zone propagation during this time. Updates will be posted as information becomes available."
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