As most online poker players probably noticed the last days, many poker sites had connection problems (either very slow or no connection at all). Rumors are going around that they suffered from a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) Attack.
This attack is used by computer hackers to bring websites down and are placed by computers all around the world, sending billions of so called ping packages to one server. If this server does not have a good protection against these attacks, it can cause downtime. As happened to Full Tilt Poker, Party Casino, Titan Poker, Virgin Games, CD Poker and Europa Casino. Also some big Russian Poker sites were attacked like PokerListing.
This finnaly shows the reason of the embarrassing outage of Full Tilt Poker during the FTOPS Main Event, when almost every player lost his connection.
These connection losses are not very good for Full Tilt’s reputation, since a lot of players are wondering if their losses will be refunded. What do you expect from Full Tilt?
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Five days and counting. That’s a lot of lost revenue for Full Tilt, and a lot of lost customers.
Full Tilt Poker’s affiliates are also adversely affected,since they can’t send new players to the FullTilt website to sign up and open new accounts. It a real bummer. In order to stay in business, Full Tilt Poker’s affiliates will end up sending the traffic to other, competing gambling websites.
I hope they get a handle on it soon. They’re a decent outfit and don’t deserve this kind of criminal attack. I hope the dopes that are behind it get caught and harshly punished. Jerks.