Joined: Feb '13
Location: United Kingdom
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So I was right, shame it took so long to admit it...
Hi Nicola,
As you may be aware, we recently suffered a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack that affected logins and forced us to cancel some of our Pokerfest tournaments on Sunday 26th October.
Although this was not under our control, we would like to apologise for any inconvenience you may have suffered and have therefore credited your account with a free $25.00 USD bonus.
Please rest assured that your account details were not compromised in any way, and that we are working hard and with the relevant authorities to ensure that this does not happen again. If you have any questions, please get in touch with our Customer Service team, otherwise we look forward to seeing you at the tables soon.
Joined: Jun '13
Location: Canada
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Sorry ice but just google ddos and you will see that there is a lot of way to be protected against these attacks. I really dont understand a poker site like Party Poker not having protection against that.
this week PokerStars had a connection problem that was settle in less than 0.30min.
If they are attack its because they are an easy target wich is not very good for their reputation.
Also this was not the first time they had connection problem and were not fixed.
I just dont believed them and tend to believe what cougar said yesterday. Party Poker with their new software and server is just not able to serve the customers they have on sunday the biggest day of the week.
Joined: Jun '13
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I agree with you that big companies have suffered attacks however when they are attack once they take mesure to correct the situation.
Party Poker suffered a lot of problem and if they werte all from attacks they did not solve the problem. And this apply 888 who is suffering the same problem.
Joined: Feb '11
Location: United Kingdom
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There's pretty much a way around pretty much every kind of security of you are intent enough on trying your hand. Even big providers are susceptible and perhaps the bigger you are the easier or further you can fall. Let's not just sites dos they are attacked...let's support them and praise them for sorting it quickly.
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Thanks for showing us their reply IQA,it's good to see that but what did you say to them ? i would just like to know as i might be sending them an email,although i didn't lose any money i couldn't log in the other night and was a bit pissed after it happened on stars beforehand, i did win $18 on P..K..R though.
Joined: Feb '12
Location: Canada
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As soon as I saw some problems the mobsters were talking about here,...and in particular, Party Poker,....I withdrew ALL my cash out of there,...with the exception of about $6...!
With all the shennannigans in the past with some of the sites,...I ain't takin' any chances of my cash getting gobbled up by some known or unknown entity...!
When things look all settled,...I'll send my cash back...! I like partypoker,...I hope they sort it out...!
Joined: Feb '13
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Posted by teddybears73: Thanks for showing us their reply IQA,it's good to see that but what did you say to them ? i would just like to know as i might be sending them an email,although i didn't lose any money i couldn't log in the other night and was a bit pissed after it happened on stars beforehand, i did win $18 on P..K..R though.
I was complaining last night in livechat, think its an extension to that. They gave me a $25 bonus. But its 250 points to clear, in 15 days. I clear 1.5-2 points a day.
Joined: Mar '09
Location: Greece
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With internet and hacking or attacks isnt mush that you can actually do. It is always the same scenario. A new attack, or hack, or virus will appear, they will all rush to find a solution for it and the moment the do, hackers already been working in a new one . Too much complaining ice
Joined: Oct '11
Location: Sweden
Age: 32 (M)
Posts: 1410
I'm having some trouble with logging in as well. The best they can do for me is to offer a deposit bonus. Seriously? I can't log in and they want me to put MORE money on my account? That's just stupid...
Posted by IceQueenAce: I totally believe them, its fairly easy to put big companies with big servers under enough pressure to take them offline or at least disrupt them.
Do you suppose these sites are being extorted? Pay, or get taken down by DDOS. If so, I think these criminals have demonstrated how effective this is. Paying the ransom might be cheaper (at first), then having your site destroyed by all players going elsewhere.
Sickening thought. Ultimately, we're paying for that.
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Posted by marqis:
Posted by IceQueenAce: I totally believe them, its fairly easy to put big companies with big servers under enough pressure to take them offline or at least disrupt them.
Do you suppose these sites are being extorted? Pay, or get taken down by DDOS. If so, I think these criminals have demonstrated how effective this is. Paying the ransom might be cheaper (at first), then having your site destroyed by all players going elsewhere.
Sickening thought. Ultimately, we're paying for that.
It happened before, to many other sites but also including party. There is a book about it...
The book about the DDOS attacks is called "Fatal System Error" by Joseph Menn. It's a good read. They hired an internet security expert to fight the DDOS attacks and they were successful. I wonder why the attackers are successful this time around, are they using different methods? You would think Party would already have the right security in place although I understand they have different owners now than the last time the DDOS occurred.
(Copy-paste from another forum, I haven't read this book, but I think I will, it looks interesting).
Joined: Apr '11
Location: Romania
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Is a cibernatic war mobsters,not only Party Poker is having theese attacks,same things happen iniPoker Network,with Coral and Expekt sites of poker facing same problems.The apocalipse is near by .Do not make any deposits
.Do not make any deposits 
