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Hack Attack Gums Up Payment Processor Authorize.Net

Posted by TimSlavin at September 23, 2004

"Hackers have crippled one of the internet's biggest credit card processors, and tens of thousands of online merchants are losing business while the company struggles to recover.

Since last Wednesday, Authorize.Net has been relentlessly pounded by distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attacks. The massive, coordinated waves of internet traffic have repeatedly overwhelmed the company's servers. Authorize.Net's customers have had to improvise: Some are confirming their credit card orders over the phone, others have gone with little or no sales for nearly a week."

This impacts their 90,000 customers who process online payments through Authorize.net, mostly small companies who are losing revenue because payments can't go through. The attack has been underway for a week. From Wired.

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