Texyt is reporting that there have been DoS attacks on some of the major Korean RMT websites, causing them to be difficult or impossible to access for the past four days. The industry in Korea is reportedly up to $1bn trade in gold, weapons and other items, which means these websites are losing a lot of money due to this outage.
There are also reports coming in that the DoS attacks originate from hackers in China - as part of a blackmail scheme to extort money out of the websites being attacked. This isn't the first time these websites have been hit; they also experienced intermittent outage over the last few days of September.
You can read more at the Texyt article.
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They got what they deserved.
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This is probably the only time I'll ever say this so...
Woot for Chinese hackers!!!
$1bn Dollar industry... were there no market, there would be no sellers.
=)
lol Real war started over gold farming. That would be the funniest thing ever.
I want a vid from the server room with all the angry asian dudes!
When I saw the title I thought it was people who just got fed up with the goldspamming and decided to return the favor. This is almost as fun tho.
Aww, poor muffins. Though I don't support blackmail, it couldn't happen to a better bunch of people.
Ha ha, really now, they should be raiding in game not in real-life!
This is gonna start a real war
statistaclly speaking, there are mors chinese gold farmers than korean farmers, so no "gogo chinese"
gogo chinease hackers on korean farmers