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August 7th, 2013
So over the last week or so I am sure most of you noticed that the site has been working very poorly if at all. It turns out our problems are two fold. First the spammers came back to visit us, very heavily.
Second, it seems that a hacker group decided to make us a target for a Denial of Service attack
We have closed the hole that was allowing the DoS and we have implemented some new rate-limiting and logging to prevent the spammers from being able to cause as much havoc.
Thank you all for being so patient with us during this difficult time.
Let us know if you're experience is better or if you are having any problems accessing the site.
Second, it seems that a hacker group decided to make us a target for a Denial of Service attack
@insanejournal Hey! LulzSec British hase fire the lazors to http://t.co/6FYvyZdmeb #RT #TANGODOWN INSANE JOURNAL @EduardKovacs
— LulzSec British (@LulzSecBritish) August 6, 2013
We have closed the hole that was allowing the DoS and we have implemented some new rate-limiting and logging to prevent the spammers from being able to cause as much havoc.
Thank you all for being so patient with us during this difficult time.
Let us know if you're experience is better or if you are having any problems accessing the site.