Sagar wrote:
Thanks Helen, that downtime helped me, I placed an Adorama order through ebay and got some good MS cash back saving few bucks from other wise listed price on your own site
Many Adorama customers have been in contact with us due to the periodic unavailability of our website over the past few days. We have ascertained that the Adorama website is currently under DDoS attack (distributed denial-of-service)
As if the New York drizzle wasn\'t enough to put up with, we have been made aware that there has been an explicit, deliberate attempt to disrupt our business - and the lives of our customers - by very experienced, aggressive attackers who have been able to overpower our servers and make the Adorama website unavailable, although we are unsure at this point whether the motives of these cyber vandals are extortion or revenge.
[It has been suggested by one of my colleagues that it is a cunning plan to get me off the forums.....how mean is that?]
Seriously, we want to stress that there has been no penetration into our system security, and that no data has been compromised.
Our IT team has been working ceaselessly to defend against this attack; we hope the worst is over ....... and I\'m still here!
So, if you were planning to order from Adorama and were about to change your mind due to the problems we\'ve been experiencing, we would be extremely grateful if you can bear with us just a little bit longer.
If you are able to wait until we are back on our feet, and are interested in finding out more about how systems ca be compromised in this way, there are links, below.
