Here’s the 411.
Since Friday evening Rushmore has been under a DDoS attack!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDoS#Distributed_attack
This one of the most vicious attacks I’ve ever heard of, with millions of connections coming from hundreds of countries, hundreds of Mbits per second, from over 500,000 computers. The only people that could pull this off is spammers, which leads us to believe that the individuals responsible this are spammers.
As some of you may know, Rushmore is serious about anti-Spam, and have taken strong measures against spamming affiliates.
We have 2 teams of well trained sysadmins that have been working round the clock over the weekend to protect us as much as possible from these malicious evil-doers, and get us back up, and so far we have made some significant strides, so although some of you may see us as down, almost all of your traffic is getting through, able to deposit and able to play.
Currently, almost all legitimate affiliate traffic is coming through, and in a couple hours we will have fixed our most vulnerable lapses in our defenses.
In any event, we’re standing tall, we’ve lived through worse and we’ll live through this. As always, we’ll emerge stronger than ever.
We thank you all for your support.
Respectfully,
Gabriel