| News: Cyber Attack on Cigar Websites |
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| Posted on Wednesday, August 05 @ 07:45:55 CDT by Atlasm |
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This is an exerpt of an e-mail sent by the president of Famous Smoke shop, Arthur Zaretzky.
"Many of our customers have been wondering why our websites have been slow or inaccessible for the past five days. The problem was due to a targeted Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, similar to what has recently been happening to some large government websites, financial institutions, and e-commerce sites in the U.S. and abroad.
These attacks occur when a flood of traffic is deliberately sent to a particular website in an effort to overwhelm the site and prevent legitimate users from getting through. This is exactly what occurred over the last five days to famous-smoke.com and to some of our competitors in the premium cigar industry. WE ARE NOW BACK, and I have taken steps to ensure that this cyber terrorism will never happen to Famous Smoke Shop again.
Although the attackers were successful in generating enough traffic to bring our websites down, we were not ‘hacked,’ and all of your personal data has been, and continues to remain, secure because of the deliberate targeting of our industry, and the scale and duration of the attack, Federal authorities have taken an active interest in pursuing the attackers and we intend to cooperate fully.”
The attack was especially frustrating for Arthur Zaretzky as he was on a buying trip in Honduras and Nicaragua. “You can only imagine my frustration,” he stated.
One can only wonder who is next.
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