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Economy => Service Announcements => Topic started by: Kris on September 15, 2012, 09:17:50 PM



Title: SOLVED WalletBit.com Currently Experiencing Network Issues - Official Statement
Post by: Kris on September 15, 2012, 09:17:50 PM
I am sure that many of you have already figured out that we have some network issues tonight.

We're very sorry about this, and we are working very hard with our network provider to fix the issue.

I will make hourly reports in this thread until everything is restored to working condition.

http://bitcoinmagazine.net/walletbit-under-ddos-1000btc-demanded/ (http://bitcoinmagazine.net/walletbit-under-ddos-1000btc-demanded/)
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The WalletBit website and service came under DDOS attack on September 15, 2012, completely disabling the services as of around 9:00 PM GMT.

Regards
Kris


Title: Re: We Are Currently Experiencing Network Issues - WalletBit
Post by: danieldaniel on September 15, 2012, 09:22:28 PM
[5:21pm] kreal: okie a mail just came in.
[5:21pm] kreal: its a ddos.
[5:21pm] kreal: and they want 1000 bTC.
[5:21pm] danieldaniel: AshleyWaffle12: i don't care
[5:21pm] kreal: nice real nice.


Title: Re: We Are Currently Experiencing Network Issues - WalletBit
Post by: Kris on September 15, 2012, 10:17:40 PM
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It is indeed a DDoS, extortion demanding bitcoins to stop. Currently there is nothing we can do until Monday.


Title: Re: We Are Currently Experiencing Network Issues - WalletBit
Post by: Kris on September 15, 2012, 11:17:31 PM
We have started to null route all our IP addresses. I will provide more information on Monday.


Title: Re: We Are Currently Experiencing Network Issues - WalletBit
Post by: bittenbob on September 15, 2012, 11:34:15 PM
http://bitcoinmagazine.net/walletbit-under-ddos-1000btc-demanded/


Title: Re: We Are Currently Experiencing Network Issues - WalletBit
Post by: Kris on September 16, 2012, 09:57:02 AM
http://ec2-54-243-207-196.compute-1.amazonaws.com/status_rrd_graph_img.png


Title: Re: We Are Currently Experiencing Network Issues - WalletBit
Post by: Kris on September 17, 2012, 08:25:46 AM
WalletBit is now back online, and we hope our new custom made Anti-DDoS based on Amazon EC2 created by yours truly - is capable of handing this attack.


Title: Re: [SOLVED] We Are Currently Experiencing Network Issues - WalletBit
Post by: greyhawk on September 17, 2012, 08:28:23 AM
Oh, you might want to look into that: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=109996.0

There's a guy renting out botnets to attack anyone, including BTC services.