WordPress.com Hit by Extremely Large Denial of Service Attack - Security - News & Reviews - eWeek.com

WordPress.com Hit by Extremely Large Denial of Service Attack - Security - News & Reviews - eWeek.com: "WordPress.com, a popular blogging platform, was hit by a large DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service Attack that affected connectivity to a number of its blogs.

The attack appeared to have begun just before 11 AM Eastern Time on Mar. 3 and lasted for about two hours, according to a status page on parent company Automattic’s site. WordPress.com is a hosted blog platform with a number of large customers, including TED, CNN, BBC, Red Hat and Flickr.

Wordpress.com is currently reporting “normal” service on its site and on its Twitter feed, but that it will be monitoring the situation closely. The attack is the “largest” WordPress.com has ever seen, Automattic told TechCrunch, whose site is hosted on WordPress.com.

“You have no idea how hard it was to get this post up,” wrote TechCrunch’s Alexia Tsotsis."