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re: Bitcoins were hacked yesterday?
Posted on 4/4/13 at 11:41 am to Lsut81
Posted on 4/4/13 at 11:41 am to Lsut81
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Bitcoins were hacked yesterday?
No, it was a DDoS.
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I thought this wasn't possible
DDoS' happen every day to many websites, and it is simply an attacker using a botnet to overload a website. Usually the goal is to cost the victim money due to website down time (in effect holding it hostage), but in this case the goal was to create a panic sell-off.
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Posted on 4/4/13 at 11:43 am to Korkstand
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it is simply an attacker using a botnet to overload a website
Great, so everyones fake money is still good?
Posted on 4/4/13 at 12:28 pm to Korkstand
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DDoS' happen every day to many websites, and it is simply an attacker using a botnet to overload a website. Usually the goal is to cost the victim money due to website down time (in effect holding it hostage), but in this case the goal was to create a panic sell-off.
Looks like Russian finally figured out a way to short bitcoins.
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