For reference, user 'NotTardy' has hit a Dust Lottery jackpot for an amount of 94 bitcoin.
DDOS extortion e-mail will not be paid. For transparency, this is the e-mail.
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IMPORTANT! Redirect this e-mail to your CEO/CFO/any kind of such person
Hello,
Your website is under DDoS attack by us since 18:22 PM (YOUR TIME)
This attack will continue for 1 hour to prove that we are serious.
After the 1 hour DDoS attack is finished, we give you 6 hours to send 5 BTC to:
1Az7TzV7vD5etpJNz1h9JV6NzCBjyzgaez
If you decide not to pay, we will start the attack at the indicated date and uphold it until you do, there's no counter measure to this. You will only end up wasting more money trying to find a solution.
We will completely destroy your reputation amongst Google and your customers and make sure your website will remain offline until you pay.
Please do not attempt to negotiate with us because you will simply be ignored and the attacks will continue.
We expect to receive this WITHIN 6 hours.
If we do not receive 5 BTC within 6 hours, all of your services will suffer from even larger DDoS attacks and we will continue the attacks until you decide to pay.
If you do not pay within 6 hours, the price for us to stop will also increase to 7.5BTC. We will then give you 12 hours to pay the 7.5BTC. If you do not, the price will be increased to 10BTC.
Every 12 hours that you do not pay, 2.5BTC will be added up to the amount.
Once the BTC is received and confirmed by us, we will leave you alone. We do bad things but we do keep our promises.
NOTE: We have enough resources to continuously attack your services and we will destroy any mitigation service put in place.
NOTE2: You do not have to reply to these emails (so nobody knows you co-operated with ransom) - we will see what you decide to do based on if we receive the BTC or not.
Regards,
ONICPtr
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We believe that the two are not connected in any way, as DDOS does not affect any wins, but we are investigating both matters as closely as possible.
edit; For more information, the big win was at 2:15PM EST, and the Ddos started at 2:23PM EST