autotrader uk site hacked & down

interesting state of affairs

http://autotraderblog.co.uk/

Auto Trader announcement: 19th April 2011


Since midday on Monday 18th April, the Autotrader.co.uk website has been subject to a malicious third-party attack which has prevented normal operational services from being delivered. Anyone visiting the site during this attack would have found that Autotrader.co.uk was either intermittently unavailable or extremely slow.

The technical support team is working around the clock to restore services and minimise the impact of similar attacks in the future. Some visitors may still experience difficulty accessing the site today while we resolve the remaining problems.

However, it is important to note that we have no evidence to suggest that any customer data has been lost as a result of the attack and there are no known risks to consumers visiting the site during this time.

Apologies for any inconvenience caused, we’d like to reassure all our customers that we are working very hard to resolve this.



UPDATE: Thank you for your comments and patience whilst we resolve this issue. There is no evidence that customer data has been compromised. It is important to note that this attack is not a ‘hack’.

Whilst we continue to focus on actually stopping the attack, we are unable to respond to your questions about ad extensions. But please rest assured that we will be in touch with all current advertisers via email once we have stabilised our website.

If you are a dealer with an Auto Trader contract, updates will be posted to Dealer Portal, where you also have access to Dealer Community.

As a result of our work so far there has been an improvement in availability as of this morning, although the attack is still ongoing.

Thanks again for your patience.

 

Well somone was pissed off enough to launch a DOS attack

 

yes i know about it. I run a top 100 aussie ranked web site.
DOS attacks are something we have had to cope with in the past