Equity Poker Network Confirms DDOS Attacks
DDOS attacks have seemingly occurred in bunches recently, targeting the Merge Gaming Networkand also perhaps causing last weekend’s $1 million guaranteed tournament on the Winning Poker Network to be canceled after four-and-a-half hours. Merge, Winning, and Equity all accept US players, but are not regulated in the US. Therefore, PocketFives does not recommend playing on any associated site, as your account balances could be at risk.
Rather than speculate that the DDOS attacks are being targeted at Equity specifically, network officials said the interruptions were part of a “more calculated wider assault on online poker businesses.” A separate press release sent from Full Flush add that “at no time throughout these attacks has the security of [players’] data ever been compromised.”
DDOS attacks are essentially a coordinated group of computers sending large number of false data requests to a system like Equity, Winning, or Merge. Eventually, the system becomes so overloaded responding to fake requests that it ends up being unable to fulfill legitimate ones, causing outages. As the CEO of Winning said on Monday, in order to block unwanted traffic to the network, developers can inadvertently block regular user traffic.
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