Silk Road down due to DDOS:
Quote from: Dread Pirate Roberts
-UPDATE (04/24/2013 0714 UTC): "The downtime of the past couple days, and especially the past 24 hours has been confirmed to be due to a deliberate attack from what appears to be an individual. There appears to be no security breach, only disruption of availability. The attack appears to be DoS in nature and is likely an exploit at the Tor network level. The site will be down or very slow until a solution can be found, which we will work tirelessly to find. Thank you for your patience." http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=151563.0
-UPDATE (04/24/2013 1647 UTC): Nothing new to report, but I just thought I'd let everyone know that I am still here and we're doing everything we can to put and end to all of this. I'm really proud to be a part of this community. You all have been showing your class through all of this.
-UPDATE (04/24/2013 1222 UTC): We are starting to get a handle on how the attack is being run. It will likely take many hours to eventually overcome, but we are 100% committed to getting the site running in peak form again. It is still possible to access here and there, so we are leaving the site open for those who want to try to gain access, but it will be tough until we can effectively counter the attack.
-UPDATE (04/24/2013 1647 UTC): Nothing new to report, but I just thought I'd let everyone know that I am still here and we're doing everything we can to put and end to all of this. I'm really proud to be a part of this community. You all have been showing your class through all of this.
-UPDATE (04/24/2013 1222 UTC): We are starting to get a handle on how the attack is being run. It will likely take many hours to eventually overcome, but we are 100% committed to getting the site running in peak form again. It is still possible to access here and there, so we are leaving the site open for those who want to try to gain access, but it will be tough until we can effectively counter the attack.
