News:DDoS attack on FA, Fchan, E621

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December 25, 2007

A distributed denial of service attack struck furry art archive Fur Affinity and image boards E621 and Fchan on Christmas Day 2007; which was a Sunday, lasting for several days. Fchan suffered from degraded functionality until early Monday morning,[1][2] while Fur Affinity's main site was mostly unusable until the evening of the same day.[3] E621 had returned by the middle of the week.[4]

The initial burst of traffic was via UDP, a protocol not typically used by web servers, but blocking such traffic only worked for a short time.[5] During the downtime, Fur Affinity popped up sporadically, with users reporting abnormalities such as getting logged in under other user's accounts.[6]

Sources[edit]

  1. Trouble Posting - Fchan /d/ (December 23, 2007)
  2. 403? - Fchan /d/ (December 23, 2007)
  3. FA is still down, DDoS is still commencing - Yak,   furaffinity (December 23, 2007)
  4. e621.net website down? - Electric Foxx, furryne.ws (December 24, 2007)
  5. Fur Affinity downtime, 13 hours and counting - Yak, Fur Affinity forums (December 23, 2007)
  6. Erk... -   furaffinity (December 23, 2007)