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MoneySavingExpert DOWN - Nigerian Hackers take revenge

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Moneysavngexpert denial of serviceMoneysavingexpert has been hacked. The moneysavingexpert.com site has been down for the last few days due to a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) . It basically means that a few hackers area little irked and have launched an attack on the ‘consumer terrorist’ site.

Problems started at around 16:00 on the 26th October and have continued throughout the weekend. Things seem to be settling a little but the site is still slow. This has really got to hurt the company’s revenues. And Martin Lewis’ pride.

Wikipedia has already been updated with the info and the blogosphere is awash with claims and counterclaims about a Nigerian scam.

It looks like Prolexic have been brought in to stem the DDoS attack.

UPDATE: They appear to be down again: 4th December 2007

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  1. George on October 30, 2007 6:00 pm

    Unless it’s the Russians:
    http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,139056-c,hackers/article.html

  2. leadhead on December 2, 2007 5:15 pm

    More loikely be the big Banks or Tescos

  3. sadiq on October 17, 2008 6:19 pm

    i want to teach me how to hack

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