Infrastructure

Bluesky has been dealing with a DDoS attack for nearly a full day

Bluesky survived a 24-hour DDoS attack that disrupted feeds and search, but confirmed no user data was compromised.

Friday, April 17, 2026 12:00 PM UTC2 MIN READSOURCE: Hacker NewsBY sys://pipeline

Bluesky experienced a DDoS attack lasting nearly 24 hours, causing intermittent service interruptions across feeds, notifications, threads, and search. The company reported detecting the attack around 2:40 AM ET and confirmed no unauthorized access to user data occurred as a result.

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