Hulu suffers outage as users say they can't log into $7.99-a-month streaming app

Hulu is suffering a awesome outage this evening.

Users reported problems pinch nan app starting astir 3pm ET, pinch galore struggling to log into their accounts.

Others had problem connecting to nan internet. Hulu's support squad acknowledged nan rumor and said it was investigating nan cause.

The cybercrime group SN Blackmeta has claimed in installments for nan outage.

The outage is thought to person been caused by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.

The onslaught involves flooding a server pinch net postulation to forestall users from accessing online services.

The attacker attempts to extract money retired of nan statement successful speech for stopping nan attack. 

Hulu has much than 50 cardinal paying subscribers, while 4.5 cardinal users subscribe to nan streamer's Hulu Live TV bundle. 

Its subscription work starts astatine $7.99 a period pinch ads.