Hacking Attack Suspected in Chinese Internet Outage

A major Internet outage in China that rerouted users to the U.S. website of a company which helps people get around Beijing's censorship may have been due to a hacking attack, the official Xinhua news service reported. The state-run China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) said in a microblog post that the outage, which lasted for several hours, was due to a malfunction in China's top-level domain name root servers.

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