Was today's shutdown a DDOS?

[beetcoin]

and do people do this to manipulate BTC prices/cause mass hysteria? considering that the crash in april was caused in big part due to mt gox's issues after all..

[danieldaniel]

and do people do this to manipulate BTC prices/cause mass hysteria? considering that the crash in april was caused in big part due to mt gox's issues after all..

Looks like it was a MITM attack; see the other threads.

[niothor]

If people start selling bitcoins because a forum is down , then we have a real problem with the community.

[BadBear]

I remember time before last this happened, the rate actually went up. I don't know about last time, I was out of town.

[whiskers75]

I remember time before last this happened, the rate actually went up. I don't know about last time, I was out of town.

Yeah, there was some selling earlier, but now it's back up.

[DeboraMeeks]

Nah, More of a man-in-the-middle attack,I guess the shutdown was intentional to avoid further hacks/loss of info until the intruder is removed from the system and everything is cleaned.

[hilariousandco]

If people start selling bitcoins because a forum is down , then we have a real problem with the community.

Haha yeah. I was starting to panic though because I need to keep hitting my target of 70 posts a day for my sig payout haha.

[Leehoya]

Nah, More of a man-in-the-middle attack,I guess the shutdown was intentional to avoid further hacks/loss of info until the intruder is removed from the system and everything is cleaned.

How about this: The attacker intentionally DDoS BTCtalk to cover up the fact that he is doing Man-In-The-Middle attack so most people wont realize.

[cescan]

yes, Leehoya very much so.

[Faince1985]

the main attack was a man-in-the-middle attack and the forum was perhaps ddos'ed later to hide this . I guess the hacker did this to obtain user's data and this forum isn't like mtgox and exchangers and I don't think it will cause a price crash if it was ddos'ed