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March 26, 2014 02:00 am PDT

Basecamp, Meetup hit by extortionist's 20Gb/sDDoS

If you're a Basecamp user who couldn't get into your account yesterday, here's why: the company refused to pay ransom to a criminal who hit them with a 20Gb/s denial-of-service flood, apparently by the same person who attacked Meetup, who uses gmail addresses in this pattern: "dari***@gmail.com."







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