BTCC Suffers DDoS Attacks But Ignores Ransom Demands
BTCC, the Shanghai, China-based digital currency exchange, suffered a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, the company noted on Dec. 31, 2015, on Twitter. The attack hampered BTCC’s access to its APIs and other services for a period of time. It marks the most recent in a growing number of DDoS attacks demanding bitcoin ransoms, including one in November against CCN.
“Our website is under DDoS attack, which is hampering access to our APIs and other services,” BTCC tweeted on Dec. 31. “We are working quickly to resolve the situation.”
BTCC received an anonymous email demanding “something like 1 BTC,” according to a Reddit post by an individual claiming to have received information from a BTCC project manager. The Reddit post came one day following the BTCC tweet.
As of Jan. 2, BTCC did not post anything about the attacks on its website.
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