One security professional said the group probably used a DDoS-for-hire site to launch an attack against Twitter on Tuesday, but downplayed the likelihood the gr

One security professional said the group probably used a DDoS-for-hire site to launch an attack against Twitter on Tuesday, but downplayed the likelihood the group was solely responsible for bringing down the social media network. "It was mere coincidence," the security professional said. "The backend of Twitter is having issues, which is unrelated to the very small attack." More like "Twitter suffers sustained outage coincidentally during hacker attack"