{"id":1475,"date":"2026-04-21T04:48:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T20:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/mastodon-was-hit-by-a-major-ddos-attack-that-briefly-took-down-parts-of-the-service\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T04:48:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T20:48:23","slug":"mastodon-was-hit-by-a-major-ddos-attack-that-briefly-took-down-parts-of-the-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/mastodon-was-hit-by-a-major-ddos-attack-that-briefly-took-down-parts-of-the-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Mastodon was hit by a ‘major’ DDoS attack that briefly took down parts of the service"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mastodon seems to be recovering after a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack that took down its primary mastodon.social instance. As TechCrunch <\/em>notes<\/a>, the platform began reporting issues<\/a> early Monday morning as much of the Mastodon-operated server became inaccessible.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It’s not clear who might be behind the attack, but Mastodon’s head of communications Andy Piper described it<\/a> as a “major” incident. A couple hours later, Mastodon shared on a status page that it had implemented countermeasures and that users should be able to access mastodon.social once again. Piper said that “some ongoing instability is a possibility” as the site recovered. It’s unclear if any other instances of the service were also targeted; mastodon.social is run directly by the nonprofit and is the largest server on the federated platform.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mastodon is the second decentralized platform to be targeted with a DDoS in recent days. Last week, Bluesky also dealt with a significant DDoS incident that took parts of the service offline for several hours. The company posted what it said was its final update<\/a> Monday morning, saying that its service had “remained stable” and that there was “no evidence of unauthorized access to private user data.” A few hours later, however, it seemed Bluesky was once again experiencing some issues, though the cause was unclear. Its official status page <\/a>was down, and a post from its server status<\/a> account indicated that there were “elevated errors and timeouts on some Bluesky-hosted services.” Bluesky said it was investigating.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/social-media\/mastodon-was-hit-by-a-major-ddos-attack-that-briefly-took-down-parts-of-the-service-204823221.html?src=rss<\/p>

Please credit: OBA Blog<\/a> » Mastodon was hit by a ‘major’ DDoS attack that briefly took down parts of the service<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mastodon seems to be recovering after a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack that took down its primary mastodon.social instance. As TechCrunch notes, the platform began reporting issues early Monday morning as much of the Mastodon-operated server became inaccessible.\u00a0 It’s not clear who might be behind the attack, but Mastodon’s head of communications Andy Piper described it as a “major” incident. A couple hours later, Mastodon shared on a status page that it had implemented countermeasures and that users should be able to access mastodon.social once again. Piper said that “some ongoing instability is a possibility” as the site recovered. It’s unclear if any other instances of the service were also targeted; mastodon.social is run directly by the nonprofit and is the largest server on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-share"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}