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http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/mtgox.com

It's not just you! http://mtgox.com looks down from here.

The site itself works sporadically but trading has halted. And you wont be able to log into your trading account (at least I couldn't). Clicking the login button does nothing

I would not be logging in now, especially if you don't have two-factor auth. Shit happens you know, any unavailability might as well be a sign of DNS redirection. These coins are becoming too sweet a bounty...

It's not fair.  I can't get at those cheap cheap bitcoins.  It'll be $1000/btc by the end of the month.  We're going exponential people.  Chase that asymptote.

btc-e is also DDoS...

Nice that it's 'only' a DDOS attack.

it's up for me. page loads in 10 seconds.

https://i.minus.com/itn1xAb2BLgND.png

http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/mtgox.com/

Try doing anything other than looking at the various pages, haha.

who the heck is doing all this ddosing anyway?

North Korea... or the Russians, dirty commies! j/k

I get "Database access error, please retry later".. hmm

Not good

They just tweeted

"Hello,

Due to high volume trading at the moment, there is a lag in trading and order cancellation."

4 hours and counting - Oh wait, that's deposits.

This could be bad for bitcoin reputation... Hope this clears up OK (and quickly!)

I was just able to log back into Gox. Appear my account # has changed.

no worries 300 $ by april 15th

I think overall people will be angry at the DDOS attackers and not bitcoin itself. ANY website or company can be attacked with way.

Bad for mt. Gox reputation, The Bitcoin protocol will just chug along.

Just means more exchanges need to be used.

The web site works just fine.  If it's a case of MtGox being spammed with bids and cancellations, why do they allow so many per user per second?  Just ban the HFT.

Any price speculation?

Does that mean next month will never happen? :)

If it's a DDOS, it only means that some parties trying to get into bitcoin, but their fund's not ready, so they nuke the web to keep it at bay, if so we should see $300 soon

Every ip on the internets is scanned for wide open holes, it's not targeted. MtGox I'm sure gets targeted attention from a skillful audience, quite a different beast - for example, your regular home server would've been rooted in hours if not minutes by a targeted attack.

And considering how cheap a huge amount of DDOS traffic is, and how much money is at stake, no wonder they get blown to pieces if they can't be directly broken into.

my order got executed, yay!

Put an unencrypted wallet with 100 btc in it on an internet-facing server and announce it's ip publicly :) You'll be surprised.

It's pretty hard to guess proficiency of forum strangers, just judging by whatever little info you give out! Peace.

PS I hope it's 5 petabytes of porn otherwise why would you protect it :)

I admire you. (deathcode)

You and I know that, but I don't trust these media types to make the distinction.

In any case, at least its cleared up.  Now, where were we...?  :)

 :'( :'(

Any company can be DDOS'd and I work for a large hosting company with data centers all over the world.  We are able to mitigate attacks with ANYCAST.  Also many sites use Cloud Flare now in the same way.  Somehow I don't think Mt Gox is investing enough in their infrastructure.  If this DDOS was taking down a site spread out like the one against Spamhaus it would be all over the news.  So in other words as someone who hosts for a living Mt Gox is pissing me off at the moment.

Google news resulted in 7 results for ddos mtgox and this has been going on for two days.