If you have tried to access SoccerMamak.com in the past couple of days you may have found yourself unable to connect to the site.
Unfortunately, SoccerMamak.com became the target of a campaign of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, which left the site inaccessible to everyone.
From Friday June 6th 2008, SoccerMamak.com has been the target of distributed denial of service attacks originating from a person intent on extortion. Friday evening, Saturday and Sunday night saw massive attacks that were sufficient in size to cripple an entire sub-net of our hosting provider's network, and filled the connecting pipes with 150mb/s of incoming junk traffic.
Having refused to meet the demands of the attacker, the attacks were resumed after two relatively quiet days, causing SoccerMamak.com and all other sites hosted on this server to go offline again. We had a list of IP addresses known to be zombie computers. These IP addresses were blocked from reaching the server, along with any other IPs that looked to be attacking. By 21:00 GMT the attack had been blocked to a point where SoccerMamak.com became available to visitors once again.
We have gained considerable knowledge about our attacker through various means, all the information has been passed onto the appropriate federal authorities and they’ll be taking the appropriate steps.
Although there’s a lot of distance and legal loopholes between hackers, their victims and the authorities, hackers
do get caught and they
do get extradited to the countries where they’ve commited their crimes.If you find that you are unable to access SoccerMamak.com, we may be able to help you out. Please send an email to
support@soccermamak.com, including your current IP address and your username. If you are unsure of your IP, you can visit this link to find it:
What Is My IP Address? - IP Address Lookup, Info, Speed Test, and more
We apologize for the inconvenience caused to all our members affected by the current situation. We are actively searching for better solutions to this ongoing problem and hope to have normal service restored to all our members in the near future.
Thank you for your understanding and support in this matter.
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