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Web criminals hit Betfair with DDOS attack
Thursday, 1 July 2004 16:33 ESTInternet betting service Betfair has blamed yesterday's disrupted operations on a malicious denial of service attack. UK Internet betting site Betfair said on Wednesday afternoon that it had been attacked by Web-based criminals. In an statement posted on its site, Betfair told its users that it been the victim of a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack. DDOS attacks are used by malicious Web users to prevent a server from functioning properly by flooding it with traffic.
"Betfair [has] experienced a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack by criminals using the Internet which affected the main exchange website between 16:40 and 17:45. We would like to apologise for the inconvenience caused by this action which was entirely outside of our control," said the company's statement.
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