In what is being termed as the worst hacker attack since the October 2002 distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack, hackers had a field day as they launched an unusually powerful attack and disrupted service on at least three of the 13 "root" servers that are used to direct traffic on the Internet. The attack began on Tuesday at about 5:30 a.m. Eastern Time and lasted as long as 12 hours.

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