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CanSpice · 2014-02-21 23:58:49

Maybe it was a ploy to get a bunch of traffic to their server and temporarily DDoS it?

jcomis | karma 1121 | avg karma 3.83 · | 2013-03-21 11:17:10

I think they are being hit with a big DDoS attack. Maybe this was their only hope of stopping it?

d3c0d3dab0d3 | karma 1 | avg karma 0.12 · | 2013-03-14 15:12:09+00:00

It could be a diversion for another attack. If there is currently a ddos going on, other suspicious behavior is more likely to be overlooked.

simonw | karma 58201 | avg karma 7.31 · | 2009-08-06 16:42:35+00:00

I'm guessing it was a DDOS due to the amount of time the site was down - if it was coming from a single IP or single IP range they would likely have been able to block it off a lot faster.

rbanffy | karma 158565 | avg karma 2.97 · | 2010-05-21 18:58:52+00:00

I guess they gave themselves a DDoS...

chad_c | karma 52 | avg karma 1.21 · | 2014-08-25 12:46:42+00:00

It was a DDoS.

subsystem | karma 3631 | avg karma 6.76 · | 2013-04-26 11:04:16

"This is very weird for a DDoS, to be honest."

Maybe it was aimed at bandwidth costs?

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kuroguro | karma 2366 | avg karma 4.82 · | 2019-04-04 10:04:43

Pretty sure it's jackasses with nothing better to do. Either for revenge or the lolz. Probably an impulsive decision since the attacker gave up so fast.

There's not much you can achieve for your own gains with a DDoS. I've heard of rare cases of extortion or underhanded business practices to hurt competitors.

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VonGuard | karma 5508 | avg karma 5.99 · | 2012-10-01 21:19:50+00:00

Is this a subtle way of DDoS'ing a site they don't like?

inter_netuser | karma 1043 | avg karma 1.08 · | 2021-09-23 03:00:43

It was DDOSed. Someone actually attacked it.

madmaze | karma 1170 | avg karma 3.7 · | 2011-06-15 18:30:30

perhaps they were DDOSing it and brought it to a crawl, then all the other visitors streaming in would certainly give it the final blow

cykros | karma 358 | avg karma 0.75 · | 2023-07-30 09:40:35

I assume Sony was just trying to hit this site with the Slashdot effect by taking this action as an indirect DDOS.

john37386 | karma 436 | avg karma 3.43 · | 2021-06-08 10:52:52+00:00

It's probably a DDoS attack.

drippingfist | karma 24 | avg karma 1.2 · | 2014-12-23 00:01:03+00:00

Maybe the DDOS is just a distraction.

fredley | karma 11683 | avg karma 6.88 · | 2017-04-12 08:14:43+00:00

I was 'in the room' when this happened. From the people monitoring the site and getting it back online there was no suspicion that the amount of traffic was high enough to be considered a DDOS, it was just a small, low-traffic service that got unexpectedly crushed a là many that get suffocated by HN.

I suspect other reasons for bringing this up now.

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flemhans | karma 756 | avg karma 1.54 · | 2022-03-07 16:09:56

Or the server was a target of DDOS and Hetzner had to shut it down for operational reasons.

tgragnato | karma 1322 | avg karma 2.32 · | 2021-06-29 15:57:01+00:00

Or the botnet was DDoSing, and someone decided they had enough. (it would not be the first time)

mirekrusin | karma 4612 | avg karma 1.97 · | 2016-01-28 00:50:16+00:00

Doesn't look like DDoS, maybe they deployed some dodgy code?

sim7c00 | karma 410 | avg karma 1.28 · | 2023-06-18 14:07:52

its not clear its ddos, though it might be, as one commenter suggested it might be ad revenue or so. maybe they hit themselves? :D. i bet we will never know.

altdataseller | karma 1954 | avg karma 1.86 · | 2022-02-11 06:51:03

I did something like that once and the next day my hosting provider warned me I was under a DDOS attack. Might have been a coincidence though.