Distributed Denial of Service of DDoS attack was the cause of the site take down for about 2 minutes. This was confirmed by a website called Keynote which confirmed that the site loading time had decrease dramatically during that time.
DDoS attacks are very common hacking attack that involves multiple computers that flow the targeted website with garbage and overloads the servers which allows for a temporary crash before a backup server kicks in or the original server is restarted by a system administrator blocking the attacking IPs.
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