Two of the largest auction sites for MMORPGs virtual goods, MMOBay.net and Playerauctions.com, have been down for most of today. While I cannot say with certainty that PlayerAuctions is under attack, I can say that MMOBay.net is.
They have been under a botnet attack since 5 am this morning (est). Even though I’m not positive, it would be a pretty big coincidence if PlayerAuctions was down for another reason, so it’s likely they to are also under a botnet attack.
Who is attacking these sites and for what purpose has yet to be determined.
Player Auctions dispursed the following e-mail:
Dear Members,
Currently, PlayerAuctions.com is experiencing a service interruption due to much needed emergency maintenance to the site in the interests of our members
Currently our IT Service Management team are at work on rectifying the problem. We will send an update once service to the site has been restored.
Buyers and Sellers Please Read
For all outstanding pending orders:
We are enacting a pause on all orders, thus suspending disbursements for the protection of both buyers and sellers. Buyers currently can not confirm delivery of their orders or initiate disputes. Sellers, be rest assured that while we are holding disbursements, you are still protected against fraudulent payments and charge backs if you have successfully completed delivery.
For immediate concerns such as disputing an order, please contact our Live Chat service which is still available.. They will log the appropriate information so that it can handled once the website is operational again.
Kindest Regards,
The PlayerAuctions.com
That’s just horrible; I hope they find whoever is doing it and have at ’em
I make side money (like books for class) off selling things on this site.
This has pretty much nuked any plans I had for being able to buy the rest of the books I needed for this semester this week.
I also didn’t get that email. >.<
THey say you can contact there customer support. How is that if the site is down?
I don’t know why people are comlaining today, MMOBAY.net has been down since Thursday or friday
I hope MMOBAY.net comes up soon. I sell there regularly and I am sitting with 10 accounts that I can’t do anything with until it comes back up. Hope it’s soon, that’s my major source of income.
I usally Buy my accounts off Mmobat.net and im about to buy another need for the site to come back up D= .. Fucking retards doing this Keep that Ddos shit out of here
Hi, i know alot about this type of stuff, ill just say its incredibly difficult to find out whos done this, unless you have some social skills to find out,
prevention, find a good server hoster that provides ddos attack protection
http://www.blacklotus.net/
im liasing with ppl at playerauctions “frostmoon” about prevention in this regard
Key if it keeps happening, upgrade and prevent
Greetings all,
My name is Jacob Aldaco, and I am the communications manager at PlayerAuctions. I’m writing to inform you that the problem at PlayerAuctions has been rectified.
There are a few minor service side problems that are being dealt with (some members are experiencing slow loading times, some can not log in, and some can not send payments) but we anticipate that all problems should be cleared up by the end of this week. We are on top of this, and are taking every precaution to above all keep all member transactions secured during this time.
@ Kort, recently I have ‘cleaned up’ our mailing lists. Previously we had over 600,000 contacts (and no, we do not buy mailing lists from other companies), however these are from registered accounts way back since 1999. I was receiving high amounts of spam, blacklisting, and bounces, so I took the initiative and did some major trimming. If you’d like to be place back on our mailing list, you can do so at our site.
lol playerauction is down again
Yes… Made an order and it went down – been down for a while now :(