Site Forum

The site suffered through a Denial of Service (DoS) attack this afternoon. For those unfamiliar, this is when a malicious party (obviously a non-collector in this case) uses brute force to hammer a server with requests rendering it unavailable to others. From Wikipedia:

"One common method of attack involves saturating the target machine with external communications requests, so much so that it cannot respond to legitimate traffic, or responds so slowly as to be rendered essentially unavailable. Such attacks usually lead to a server overload. In general terms, DoS attacks are implemented by either forcing the targeted computer(s) to reset, or consuming its resources so that it can no longer provide its intended service or obstructing the communication media between the intended users and the victim so that they can no longer communicate adequately."

The incident is being investigated. Sorry for the inconvenience. 

I could feel it coming on as I was uploading the Terminator CCG cards.  I thought it had to do with that new advertsement regarding  "This is no Joke, you are the winner of the Apple Product ...... ".  That advertisement basically took over the site as time went on, to the point that it became the only advertisement in all of the advertisement windows, with every page refresh.  It was also accompanied by a very loud double beep, that early on in the bomardment was on occasional, and then became frequent to the point of almost beeing with every page fresh. 

I was wondering..

Sportscardcollector98, when the latest World of Warcraft expansion came out there were DoS attacks for the better part of two weeks..

Still, WOW was of interest and a huge faze.  We are but a small percentage of the majority... Why attack TCDB?

Because they're losers. Nothing better to do than stupid s@!t like that.

Yeah it had me freaking out, I actually got a big bad error page with all sorts of jibberish on it, and after reading about the possibility of being shut down in another thread, I thought it was the card apocolypse!! Whewwwww ..... hope all is good now.