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DDOS attacks forces cancelation of $1mln guaranteed on WPN

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Garfed   Malta. Dec 21 2014 19:28. Posts 4818

A huge Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack recently hit Winning Poker Network (WPN), forcing the network to cancel a million dollar guaranteed tournament last Sunday.

Winning Poker Network is one of the very few that still accepts incoming traffic from United States and it consists of poker rooms like BetCRIS, 5Dimes, or America’s Cardroom. The traffic isn't huge (it averages around 300 cash game players according to PokerScout.com) but the site is trying it's best and the $1mln guaranteed tournament was supposed to be a step into the right direction.

This isn't the first attack on this network, as hackers have already targeted it a week earlier, but without much success. However, when the $1mln tournament started, the attack began and players were affected in numerous ways: the tables started freezing, hands were being folded due to time outs and players were put on sit outs. Support tried their best and paused the event multiple times to deal with the problems, but after 4:30h into the tournament, the decision was presented to players:
"Due to circumstances out of our control, we have been unable to provide a stable, fair gaming experience. Many players timed out, while others remained connected. As per our terms and conditions, the tournament has been cancelled and buy-ins and fees have been refunded to all participants."

Players became furious, not only because of the event being cancelled, but mostly due to the fact that WPN decided to refund all the players, rather then distribute the prize pool based on chip count to remaining players.

On Monday, WPN CEO Phil Payton commented: [i]“Well, I don’t even know where to start. This has probably – and like you care – been one of the hardest…the hardest week of my life. When you have these internet connectivity issues, you have to filter out the bad traffic that’s coming in, that’s causing the internet connectivity issues, and with that, you filter out some good traffic. Hence, players get disconnected, but the site stays online,” he said.
"Whoever was causing the Internet disconnections was waiting for the million [dollar guaranteed tournament]. The second that it started, it [the attack] started.”

The tournament has been rescheduled for February 22nd.

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whamm!   Albania. Dec 21 2014 21:33. Posts 11625

It smells like an excuse to cancel a tournament with a less than desirable number of participants. DDos? really now.. lol
thanks Amaya


Silver_nz   New Zealand. Dec 21 2014 21:36. Posts 5647

1 question: was there an overlay?


Rinny   United States. Dec 21 2014 21:55. Posts 600


  On December 21 2014 20:33 whamm! wrote:
It smells like an excuse to cancel a tournament with a less than desirable number of participants. DDos? really now.. lol
thanks Amaya



no its legit... its been happening on all networks small enough to be targetted (i.e every1 but pokiestars) 2p2 thread http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/29/...etwork-attack-cheating-merge-1494272/


NewbSaibot   United States. Dec 21 2014 23:47. Posts 4943


  On December 21 2014 20:33 whamm! wrote:
It smells like an excuse to cancel a tournament with a less than desirable number of participants. DDos? really now.. lol
thanks Amaya

nah, these script kiddie faggots around the globe who somehow get access to mass bot networks have been doing this shit for years now. Thats all they fuckin do, just ddos all day. There's an epic story on grc.com where some guy manages to find an infected pc and reverse engineers the bot installed on it, finds the hackers and learns they are just a bunch of kids randomly targeting companies all around the globe like 24 hours per day.

bye now 

PoorUser    United States. Dec 22 2014 01:02. Posts 7471

was playing it. there was an overlay of about ~100k but a lot of sites were getting ddos'd at the time so it seems credible enough

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Spitfiree   Bulgaria. Dec 22 2014 08:13. Posts 9634

There have been a lot ddos attacks on big companies lately, game like LoL and WoW have had server drops for hours too


ggplz   Sweden. Dec 22 2014 11:46. Posts 16784

wow

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chris   United States. Dec 22 2014 15:29. Posts 5503

I've lost hundreds on merge recently to DC and time out issues described. Pretty sure ppl doing it to merge too.....but merge support sucks and days I am only person with the issue

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MiPwnYa    Brasil. Dec 22 2014 23:29. Posts 5230

whats in it for the hackers making such attacks? cant wrap my head around it


2primenumbers   United States. Dec 22 2014 23:55. Posts 199

Their little dicks get hard with feelings of power

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NewbSaibot   United States. Dec 23 2014 00:01. Posts 4943


  On December 22 2014 22:29 MiPwnYa wrote:
whats in it for the hackers making such attacks? cant wrap my head around it

the thrill

bye now 

YoMeR   United States. Dec 23 2014 01:06. Posts 12435

lol no wonder why i couldn't join the tourny no matter how hard i tried.

eZ Life. 

devon06atX   Canada. Dec 23 2014 12:42. Posts 5458

Those damn North Koreans at it again.


Jubert69   United States. Dec 23 2014 13:24. Posts 3191


  On December 22 2014 22:29 MiPwnYa wrote:
whats in it for the hackers making such attacks? cant wrap my head around it



I can see other Poker Rooms hiring hackers.


Rinny   United States. Dec 23 2014 18:32. Posts 600


  On December 22 2014 22:29 MiPwnYa wrote:
whats in it for the hackers making such attacks? cant wrap my head around it



you can raise after lots have been put into the pot, then ddos to timeout your opponent.


 



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