PlayerAuctions Recovers from BotNet attack
More information will be forthcoming, however we are pleased to announce that we have made a speady recovery against a very large DDoS attack. I'll be sure to post more specific details tomorrow. Our site was brought back online as of Sunday night PST but had periodic outages since then. Due to tireless work from our IT teams we are now close to a full recovery. Sign in, and payment processing issues are now fully resolved.
Some potentials have informed us that they are having trouble registering. This has been brought to the attention of our IT staff and they are working on it. Aside from our website loading slower than normal, we have repelled a majority of the attack and continue to make astounding progress.
As some of you know, many other websites have also suffered from this same attack. We are proud to say we are one of the first to recover.
Your Private Information and Payment Information
...has remained safe and secure. We made sure of that. When the attack first began, that was one of our primary focuses was first to protect our member's information even before we were able to discern what was taking place. Judging from member feedback also, confidence remains high, so thank you for all your encouragement.