Main web site down during May the 30th, 2016

[Staff 9751]

Hello!

 

During May the 30th, starting from 4 AM CEST and approximately for 11 hours, the main web site was down due to a DDoS attack. Secondary frontend servers and VPN services were not affected.

 

While the DDoS was ongoing we received ransom requests to stop the attack which we obviously ignored as we always do. We solved the issue after the first 10-11 hours, although the attack persisted. On May 31st the attackers desisted, probably after they could see that their attack had been ineffective for several hours.

 

We apologize for the inconvenience.

 

Kind regards

AirVPN Staff

[go558a83nk 352]

I assume you saw the user who took credit for this on twitter?

[OpenSourcerer 1359]

I assume you saw the user who took credit for this on twitter?

 

I'm not a Twitter user, care to provide links?

[Revelead 16]

 

I assume you saw the user who took credit for this on twitter?

 

I'm not a Twitter user, care to provide links?

https://twitter.com/GETDD0sed/status/737272812197576704

 

Im sure that no sane person would give that retard money.

[go558a83nk 352]

 

I assume you saw the user who took credit for this on twitter?

 

I'm not a Twitter user, care to provide links?

 

https://twitter.com/TrapsFed/status/737085253039296512

[zhang888 1065]

This doesn't really makes any difference who was behind it, these attention seeking miscreants appear

every once in a while, this doesn't worth the time of anyone on this community.

There are many solutions to protect from such low skilled attackers.

All those solutions are way cheaper than paying random opportunists

[go558a83nk 352]

This doesn't really makes any difference who was behind it, these attention seeking miscreants appear

every once in a while, this doesn't worth the time of anyone on this community.

There are many solutions to protect from such low skilled attackers.

All those solutions are way cheaper than paying random opportunists

 

paying?  I'm suggesting working with authorities to have the perpetrators arrested.  seeing who they are on twitter should help.

[flat4 79]

They attacked a website because they got trashed, wow people these days, I am scare for these young people who never leaned coping skills to criticism. 

[LZ1 662]

Hello !

 

Doesn't Air have any protection against these attacks? And is there any info on how big it was?