Bitly, the popular URL shortening tool, suffered a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on Wednesday, which impacted portions of its website.
The company confirmed the attack with the following statement on the main page of its site on Wednesday morning: "Bitly is currently working to mitigate a DDOS attack. Some parts of the website may be partially available as a result." Bitly also informed users of the attack with a tweet.
We are currently working to mitigate a DDoS attack. Some of our site may be unavailable, but we're working to restore full functionality.— Bitly (@Bitly) February 26, 2014
It's unclear whether the DDoS attack also impacted links shared using Bitly or just the website itself.
By 9:22 a.m. ET, Bitly had issued a new statement on its site: "All links are working after mitigating an earlier DDOS attack. Some link metrics may still be delayed."