Community and blogging site LiveJournal is continuing to suffer a prolonged outage.

The service has been down [1] since Monday due to unspecified data centre problems [2]. Russian media firm SUP bought LiveJournal from original developers Six Apart back in 2007 before moving product development and design functions to Russia.

LiveJournal was hit by a DDoS attack earlier this year but a second attack does not appear to be the cause of this week's extended outage. ®

Links

1. http://status.livejournal.com
2. http://twitter.com/#!/e_kaspersky/status/95507462966345728

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