UK webhost 123-Reg in DDOS attack

  • 24 April 2014
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Businesses using 123-Reg's web hosting service were knocked offline on Wednesday evening following a reported distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.
 123-Reg is the UK's largest domain provider hosting over 1.4 million websites. The company said it was hit by a DDoS style attack that caused disruption to some customers on its shared hosting packages.
DDoS attacks typically use a botnet of computers in a co-ordinated attack, driving web traffic to a particular website. The attack appeared to cause patchy service for websites hosted by the company for several hours with many customers taking to Twitter to vent their frustration.
 
UK games and mobile apps start-up Greedy Goblin Games (@GreedyGoblins) tweeted 123-Reg: "It appears your shared hosting servers are down. Can access FTP but not websites".
While IT consultant@thepaulturvey tweeted: "Is there a problem with 123-Reg shared hosting? Multiple sites not responding".
 
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UK’s Largest Hosting firm 123-Reg ‘Pounded’ by DDoS Attack
This is the second time in two years that 123-Reg suffered a series of massive DDoS attacks.
UK’s largest domain registrar provider 123-reg has become a victim of a DDoS attack after which its users couldn’t access their email accounts as well as websites. This is only the beginning of 2017 and the hosting platform has suffered another big blow.
 
The news about these attack was announced formally by the company via Twitter:
“We believe a DDoS attack has just started, we are working out remediation options and impact at present. Updates to follow.”
 
“Our networks teams are continuing to scrub and reroute bad traffic. We apologize for any inconvenience during this time. Our teams are continuing to reroute traffic. A further update on this work will be provided very shortly.”
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