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Topic: BTC-E Down??? Please confirm (Read 1804 times)

sr. member
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September 04, 2014, 12:31:51 AM
#19
DDOS attack, huh? I sometimes wonder if people are doing this only for the laughs or if it's being done by truly malevolent people who are trying to pursue personal gains by this. Any ideas how you could profit from an attack?
If you were to launch a DDoS attack against a website then you could also launch a different attack on the same website. The website operator's attention and resources would likely be focused on the DDoS (it is much more public and obvious) so less would likely be done to counter whatever other attack you are attempting.
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September 03, 2014, 11:34:05 PM
#18
DDOS attack, huh? I sometimes wonder if people are doing this only for the laughs or if it's being done by truly malevolent people who are trying to pursue personal gains by this. Any ideas how you could profit from an attack?

Back in the early days when 80% of bitcoin trade happened over at gox, people would DDoS mtgox and the lag would increase to some insane amount making trading nearly impossible. It would temporarily crash the price, this exact method was used to crash the price on a number of occassions. The attackers probably had a short on bitcoin so profited that way. It's probably somebody trying the same thing again, doubtful they'll have much success nowadays though.
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September 03, 2014, 11:29:35 PM
#17
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September 03, 2014, 05:29:09 PM
#16
It is nomal for me.
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September 03, 2014, 05:26:05 PM
#15
it's opening normally and with good speed to me, haven't tried logging in but everything looks normal on homepage at the moment, DDOS attack ended?
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September 03, 2014, 05:23:21 PM
#14
DDOS attack, huh? I sometimes wonder if people are doing this only for the laughs or if it's being done by truly malevolent people who are trying to pursue personal gains by this. Any ideas how you could profit from an attack?
That people will trade on other exchanges meanwhile? So profit maybe?
But it would need to be offline for way longer time.
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September 03, 2014, 05:19:48 PM
#13
Seems to be up and down right now....but I finally accessed my account at least and everything was in tact.  That's really all I need to know Smiley
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A pumpkin mines 27 hours a night
September 03, 2014, 05:18:37 PM
#12
DDOS attack, huh? I sometimes wonder if people are doing this only for the laughs or if it's being done by truly malevolent people who are trying to pursue personal gains by this. Any ideas how you could profit from an attack?
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September 03, 2014, 05:15:31 PM
#11
I'm currently getting an "Error 502 Bad Gateway" on BTC-e.com.

Hopefully any customer coins they have are stored securely somehow.
sr. member
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September 03, 2014, 05:14:26 PM
#10
I was using btc-e.com about 20 minutes ago just fine and now I can't connect at all.  

First I could not access the URL http://btc-e.com

Now, I can access, but if I try to login "server error"

UPDATE:  Following "server error" it gives me "PoW Data Not Received"

Can't tell if this is getting better or worse.

It works fine for me? Not even delay when loading.

Have you tried to login though?  They've confirmed ddos just a minute ago.
I've tried refreshing it multiple times even after annoucment and it worked. Now it doesn't anymore.
legendary
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September 03, 2014, 05:14:07 PM
#9
Took some time loading, but loaded without problem.

Even google went down one time or two, nothing to worry.
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September 03, 2014, 05:12:36 PM
#8
I was using btc-e.com about 20 minutes ago just fine and now I can't connect at all.  

First I could not access the URL http://btc-e.com

Now, I can access, but if I try to login "server error"

UPDATE:  Following "server error" it gives me "PoW Data Not Received"

Can't tell if this is getting better or worse.

It works fine for me? Not even delay when loading.

Have you tried to login though?  They've confirmed ddos just a minute ago.
sr. member
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September 03, 2014, 05:07:05 PM
#7
I was using btc-e.com about 20 minutes ago just fine and now I can't connect at all.  

First I could not access the URL http://btc-e.com

Now, I can access, but if I try to login "server error"

UPDATE:  Following "server error" it gives me "PoW Data Not Received"

Can't tell if this is getting better or worse.

It works fine for me? Not even delay when loading.
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September 03, 2014, 05:06:56 PM
#6
Ddos attack per twitter:  https://twitter.com/btcecom

Wonderful....
newbie
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September 03, 2014, 05:05:17 PM
#5
i opened same topic but know i cnt find it. why

Probably because it was moved to the correct sub-forum, as this thread should be.
so which one is correct forum and why this topic stays?
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September 03, 2014, 04:45:46 PM
#4
My bad on posting to incorrect forum

Thank you for confirming site is down for others too...at least partially

As mentioned,  I was finally able to load the site itself, but cannot login (server error)

Hopefully this will be resolved very soon.


newbie
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September 03, 2014, 04:42:09 PM
#3
i opened same topic but now i cant find it. why
legendary
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September 03, 2014, 04:41:49 PM
#2
Down for me too, site does appear down.   Shocked

http://www.isitdownrightnow.com/btc-e.com.html
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September 03, 2014, 04:39:46 PM
#1
I was using btc-e.com about 20 minutes ago just fine and now I can't connect at all.  

First I could not access the URL http://btc-e.com

Now, I can access, but if I try to login "server error"

UPDATE:  Following "server error" it gives me "PoW Data Not Received"

Can't tell if this is getting better or worse.

UPDATE #2: BTC-E confirms ddos attack https://twitter.com/btcecom
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