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mrb on April 11, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: It was not a DDoS: MtGox got 20k new accounts per ...

The MtGox employees talk about 10 Gbps of traffic hitting their front-end servers. They are desperately working with Black Lotus and Prolexic to help. That is a textbook network DDoS. "Creation of the accounts" is not the source of the slowness and unresponsiveness of the site.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=166578.msg1737375#ms...

Igalze on April 11, 2013 | [–]

They are already using prolexic (check DNS to verify) and it sure looks like DDoS to me.

NewAccnt on April 11, 2013 | [–]

But saying that's what it was is a great way to keep the bubble going.

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