Throughout its history WordPress.com has not yet had known such a powerful DDoS attacks. As said in the company, all three data centers, which are located in Chicago, Dallas and San Antonio fell gigabytes of data. They were forced to handle the tens of millions of packets per second.

As a consequence of all this administration has started to restore the system, but as the levels of attacks have been very large, then for a full resumption of blog-hosting take some time. The official statement also says that this is not the first such attack on WordPress, but it is the most powerful and this has not happened. In this case, affected about 18 million Web sites and blogs that have been placed on WordPress.com.

Problems have occurred even in VIP clients. Affected site TechCrunch, Financial Post and National Post. Yesterday the company posted data about what sites have been restored, it is constantly updated in real time. By night, Moscow time, the company stated that they were able to restore full operation of all systems.

Source: electronista.com