Bitcointalk downtime, or just me? Edit: DDoS attack confirmed as per Theymos - page 3.

The Sceptical Chymist

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Quote from: awesome31312 on September 05, 2016, 06:37:47 PM

Quote from: The Sceptical Chymist on September 05, 2016, 06:34:14 PM

Did we get hacked?

I don't know but on a hidden market which I can't name, I saw a Bitcointalk.org accounts listing, so I would change my password ASAP. It had plenty of sales too.

OK, that sounds like a damn good idea. But is that the old database or what? Like, last time we got hacked and had to change our passwords?

Anyhow, thanks, gonna change it now. I removed that feedback BTW but you ought not deal in accounts.

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Quote from: The Sceptical Chymist on September 05, 2016, 06:34:14 PM

Did we get hacked?

I don't know but on a hidden market which I can't name, I saw a Bitcointalk.org accounts listing, so I would change my password ASAP. It had plenty of sales too.

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Yep, was down. Went out to the store to buy some melatonin for our clients, came back and it's up.

Did we get hacked?

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Quote from: awesome31312 on September 05, 2016, 06:29:05 PM

OMG! Is everything going to be okay? Can we expect more downtime? Please answer!

Probably there will be periodic downtime until they stop or until I figure out how to mitigate the attack.

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Quote from: theymos on September 05, 2016, 05:37:32 PM

Yes, there was a DDoS attack.

OMG! Is everything going to be okay? Can we expect more downtime? Please answer!

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Quote from: onlinedragon on September 05, 2016, 05:32:13 PM

When you not sure if a website is offline for all people you can easily check it with a website like this: http://isitdownorjust.me/bitcointalk-org/. Other websites can do something similar for you but you can google that by yourself.

dunno if theses sites will give an accurate results since we could load bitcointalk but we can't access it

Quote from: theymos on September 05, 2016, 05:37:32 PM

Yes, there was a DDoS attack.

thanks for the answer (couldn't say it before because it got hanged cuz of the attack)

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It was also down here. After a while the forum was back up, but the index page was only showing an error. It would be nice if the bitcointalk twitter account would be used to give people some information.

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Yes, there was a DDoS attack.

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Quote from: onlinedragon on September 05, 2016, 05:32:13 PM

When you not sure if a website is offline for all people you can easily check it with a website like this: http://isitdownorjust.me/bitcointalk-org/. Other websites can do something similar for you but you can google that by yourself.

That site is not always correct. Sometimes the site is not down but you cannot access the website because it has some error.

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Yeah. At first I was getting time out error but it changed to smf database error (website checkers don't see this as down) in the last few minutes. Probably just server overload or something.

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When you not sure if a website is offline for all people you can easily check it with a website like this: http://isitdownorjust.me/bitcointalk-org/. Other websites can do something similar for you but you can google that by yourself.

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Is it just me, or was there server downtime for a significant period of time? (>30 minutes)

About half an hour before making this post, I mean of course it's working right now. I got an error code which I forgot to save when it finally loaded. Anybody else?

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