Europe's #1 Hardware etailer under attack

[juneau]

I was wondering what has been happening to this shop and their forums for over a week now and it even disrupted my latest order with them.

OcUK puts ?10K bounty on the heads of DDoS varmints

Overclockers.co.uk is offering a ?10,000 ($13,830) reward for information leading to the conviction of attackers who have targeted the technology enthusiast site in a DDoS lasting over a week.

It would take a considerable outlay of money and effort to mount a week-long attack, so we can speculate that the perpetrators either have a serious beef against OcUK or they are attempting to mount a blackmail scam. Either way this would help OcUK to narrow down the list of potential suspects.

OcUK puts £10K bounty on the heads of DDoS varmints ?€? The Register
http://forums.enemydown.co.uk/showthread.php?t=92384
http://forums.multiplay.co.uk/showthread.php?t=65716
http://www.blazingpc.com/forum/showt...x.html?t=16220
http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?p=2998642
OcUK DDoS attack - £10,000 reward
UK site offers bounty for DDoS attackers - ZDNet.co.uk

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/sho...967175&page=26

The forums should load but it takes quite a while. Considering the reward sum i'd say they're starting to lose quite a considerable amount of money over this, and during a recession to boot.

[Duke{CLR}]

Yikes! Throw in hard economic times and this can really hurt the bottom line.

[Rand{CLR}]

Someone must have gotten a bad stick of ram.

-Rand

[juneau]

Someone must have gotten a bad stick of ram.

-Rand

[WalkinTarget]

When Juneau is denied the ability to buy new PC hardware, people will sleep with the fishes, if you know what I mean ?

[Sirex]

Know I think this is the 3rd DDoS OCUK has had since I joined here... lol

I remember you telling me about a few others juneau...

[juneau]

Know I think this is the 3rd DDoS OCUK has had since I joined here... lol

I remember you telling me about a few others juneau...

I know of one other, but that was some lame attempt that lasted a few hours. This is happening on a daily basis for hours at a time.

[Apache Warrior]

Maybe they should hire Sirex to track them down a deal with them.
Apache

[Trooper110]

Maybe private companies should take up torturing hackers and DDoS'ers, etc. and putting up videos on the net Not that it's helped countries that the US has invaded...