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Hacker Holds Meetup.com Hostage – for $300?

04

Mar

2014

Meetup has been hit by a DDoS attack that may be linked to an email-based extortion demand demanding $300 to spare the company from being hacked.

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Meetup.com Battles DDoS Attacks

04

Mar

2014

The website Meetup.com is back online after a powerful distributed denial-of-service attack was launched against the site. The attack began Thursday when an attacker sent an extortion demand for $300 to Meetup CEO Scott Heiferman in an email. According to the CEO, the attack began simultaneously, overwhelming the site’s servers with traffic. “We got to […]

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Meetup Down for Days Due to DDOS Attack Allegedly Ordered by a Competitor

03

Mar

2014

The website of Meetup (meetup.com), the social networking portal that facilitates real world meetings between its members, has been hit with a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack. The attack started on the morning of February 27, and the website and apps have been mostly down ever since. The company says customer data is secure, but […]

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