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'The average internet user would have barely noticed' the attack, an Icann spokesman said. Photograph: Guardian
Hackers last night mounted the most significant attack since 2002 on the computers that direct traffic on the internet, it emerged today.
The hackers, believed to be from Asia, bombarded the 13 computers, or root servers, that serve as the internet's central address books.
But although the assault lasting several hours was the largest in the past five years, it had little effect on internet users.
"It was a significant and concerted attack, but the average internet user would have barely noticed," said Paul Levins, the vice-president of corporate affairs at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann), the body that oversees the running of the root servers and the net's addressing system.
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