From the article ” Many of the network outages appear to be caused by an expanded fraud check system imposed by the DOGE team, current and former officials said. The technology staff did not test the new software against a high volume of users to see if the servers could handle the rush, these officials said.”
I'm guessing they use a managed cloud provider. Will hiring more staff really prevent the site from crashing?
My guess is it's DoS attacks from hostile actors.
From the article ” Many of the network outages appear to be caused by an expanded fraud check system imposed by the DOGE team, current and former officials said. The technology staff did not test the new software against a high volume of users to see if the servers could handle the rush, these officials said.”