Pastebin Blocks 9,000 IP's to Stop DDOS Attack

Dermot7 · Feb 22, 2012

Pastebin, the number one paste tool since 2002, is yet again targeted by a massive distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack.

On the day in which Pastebin’s developers revealed the fact that the 3.1 version has gone online, they also posted a tweet to say that they were being hit by another DDOS attack
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http://news.softpedia.com/news/Pastebin-Blocks-9-000-IPs-to-Stop-DDOS-Attack-254249.shtml

Update:

Pastebin issued an official statement regarding the series of DDOS attacks that have targeted their site.

“So far we have been able to block about 20,000 IP's, but this number is growing by the minute. These IP's are most likely from innocent people who have no clue that their computer is being used for this purpose. It is highly recommended that you always have up-to-date antivirus software installed, and a good Firewall active,” reads their statement.
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