Kraken And Crypto-Related Domains Victim To DDOS Attacks
The website Kraken was down last night due to a DDOS attack brought to their system. It seems that the exchange was sent an extortion letter from the unknown attacker. The service stated over a Twitter broadcast explains Kraken won’t be paying the extortionist. The final weeks of November was an interesting time for DDOS attacks for quite a few cryptocurrency related services. A few crypto news publications before entering their site gave CloudFlare updates to visitors during the week. The website Bitcoinfuturesguide.com has complained of server attacks to their operations and a letter....
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San Francisco-based Bitcoin exchange, Kraken, experienced unexpected downtime today due to a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on their site. Whether or not the attack was malicious or due to a recent influx of users is unknown. According to the Kraken support account on Reddit, the company was working to resolve the issue only minutes after reports began flowing in. "The site is down because we are currently under DDOS attack. We are working to resolve and will update you when we have further information." Seeing as the company is in the Pacific time zone, the employees were....