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Give me $300 or the website gets it!

04

Mar

2014

This past Thursday at 10:26AM, Meetup CEO Heiferman got a strange email. “A competitor asked me to perform a DDoS attack on your website. I can stop the attack for $300 USD. Let me know if you are interested in my offer.” Before Heiferman could finish reading the email, the site came under attack, swamped with […]

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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.com offline as it refuses to pay $300 ransom to hackers

04

Mar

2014

Social networking website Meetup.com is fighting a sustained battle against cyber attackers who are demanding only $300 to call off a campaign that has kept the site offline for much of the past four days. A Meetup blog said that the company was a victim of a distributed denial of service (DDOS) campaign, a type […]

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