Alright guys. BitEmber was struck hard with a DDoS attack between 7 am GMT+1 to 12 am GMT+1 and has been behaving dodgey after that as well. DDoS attacks are unfortunate but beyond our control.
If you want to ask question directly, go to #bitember @ irc.freenode.net
We're looking into all e-mails that has been sent to
admin@bitember.com at this minute.
To stay safe from pools being DDoSed in the future, you can always look into how to add several pools to the pool list in your miner.
To do this in cgminer simply put
[cgminer -o
http://pool1:port -u pool1username -p pool1password -o
http://pool2:port -u pool2usernmae -p pool2password]
Many miners support this feature.
For you guys who got accounts hacked, this goes without saying, but
never use the same password for multiple pools. http://bitember.com for all pools and contact information.