Everything seems to be running smooth now as I believe all attacks have faded out. Unfortunately, I have been out of pocket all day and just received a voice mail from one of our guys to let me know that several OctoCoin pools were being attacked. I'm on my way to the office right now to see what we can do on our end but I believe things are under control at this point. It appears the primary issue was the nodes getting hit with an attack. We have small miners at most of the pools and the only pool that never dropped out was sfo.fusionhash.com:3338 - our miner at edric's pool and our miner pointed at sfo8.fusionhash.com:3338 (the primary FusionHash stratum server) both lost connection. We also run a private pool in our office and even that was throwing errors and dropping most shares.
Things seem to have calmed down but we will keep an eye on it. We have some fresh nodes on standby that we will post if another attack hits. Very strange timing - like edric said, it was probably just some kids screwing around. I did receive an email from FusionHash confirming that no coins were lost in the attack(s) and their database server was not affected. I want to thank edric for all of his effort - this guy continues to go the extra mile. Obviously FusionHash has been great as well but I have asked FusionHash to post status updates here from now on instead of just emailing us to help keep everybody informed. If edric hadn't been around, many people here would have been in the dark on the entire situation. Also, this is another great example of why you should always have a number of backup pools in place on your miners (personally, I usually round my backup list out with solo-mining.)
We have had a general OctoCoin news update planned for tomorrow and everything remains on schedule.
Things seem to have calmed down but we will keep an eye on it. We have some fresh nodes on standby that we will post if another attack hits. Very strange timing - like edric said, it was probably just some kids screwing around. I did receive an email from FusionHash confirming that no coins were lost in the attack(s) and their database server was not affected. I want to thank edric for all of his effort - this guy continues to go the extra mile. Obviously FusionHash has been great as well but I have asked FusionHash to post status updates here from now on instead of just emailing us to help keep everybody informed. If edric hadn't been around, many people here would have been in the dark on the entire situation. Also, this is another great example of why you should always have a number of backup pools in place on your miners (personally, I usually round my backup list out with solo-mining.)
We have had a general OctoCoin news update planned for tomorrow and everything remains on schedule.
sweet thanks for the update! glad everything has chilled some.
I just send you 2 small packages of Octocoins to your adress, keep it or sell it, but you deserve it 
