69585258 LiveJournal has undergone the most powerful DDoS attack in its history
Blogohosting LiveJournal was under heavy DDoS-attack in its history. According to the press service of the company SUP. “At the moment, LiveJournal does not work correctly, we confirm this information. This is due to the fact that the LJ exposed to DDoS-attack, but its source and destination as we can not name” – said the head of LiveJournal Russia Svetlana Ivannikova. “This attack has a somewhat different nature as opposed to those that were on LiveJournal earlier – an attack similar to the power happens the first time in the history of LJ. We do not call yuzerneymy users who have been attacked, but did not recommend making the jump to conclusions about what is famous person “- also said Ivannikova. Apparently, according to Svetlana Ivannikova about the “famous person” belonged to the rumor that was subjected to attack by hackers magazine Alexei bulk, who complained of similar problems before. Assumption that Learn “fell” because the next DDoS-attacks on the diary of the founder of “Painting”, published some bloggers (on Twitter and Facebook) and a number of media outlets. Ivannikova separately noted that this problem has no direct relationship to other technical malfunction that occurred on March 30. Wednesday morning fresh record some live journals no longer show up in ribbons of users. “Difficulties with the instantaneous appearance of entries in the logs some users are not associated with DDoS-attacks, and with difficulties in the system cache” – she said. LiveJournal is a popular platform among Russian bloggers. As part of the Cyrillic Learn about 4 million registered accounts. The monthly audience of LiveJournal in Russia exceeds 20 million.
