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| Subject: Bitcoin exchange MtGox faced 150,000 attacks per second Mon Mar 10, 2014 6:53 pm | |
| Bitcoin exchange MtGox faced a massive hacker offensives last month, coming under 150,000 denial-of-service attacks a second for several days ahead of its spectacular failure, a report says.
The Tokyo-based exchange, which filed for bankruptcy protection in February and admitted losing half a billion dollars in the digital currency, has come under serious cyber-attacks in particular since about February 7, the Yomiuri Shimbun reports.
While MtGox faced hacker attempts to steal bitcoins, the exchange also confronted massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, crippling its systems, the newspaper said without naming its sources. Advertisement
Under DDoS attacks, hackers hijack multiple computers to send a flood of requests for pages and data to the target, crippling its computer system.
http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/business-it/bitcoin-exchange-mtgox-faced-150000-attacks-per-second-20140310-hvh0t.html |
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