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The Pirate Bay Returns, Anonymous Hater Takes Credit For DDoS

Posted by timothy on from the bad-childhoods-in-the-news dept.

An anonymous reader writes "After being the victim of a massive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack by an unknown party, The Pirate Bay has returned. An Anonymous traitor who goes by the name AnonNyre has claimed responsibility for the DDoS attack that kept the site offline for days."

4 of 122 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Works for the feds? by Infiniti2000 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Helping them and working for them are two very different things. Nyre may simply have desired to support the Feds on a particular issue.

  2. Except it didn't. by JustAnotherIdiot · · Score: 4, Informative

    kept the site offline for days

    As several people pointed out in the last article, getting to the site was trivial.
    It was hardly down.

    --
    What do I know, I'm just an idiot, right?
  3. Re:Thank god! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    TPB doesn't run a tracker anymore. TPB being down would not have disrupted your download.

  4. Still don't think it was a DDoS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    I still don't think it was a DDoS. First, all the well known mirrors still worked, rather than being targeted as well. Second, the traffic for the pirate bay, at least for my computer, disappeared whenever it entered AT&T's part of the network (hop 5) instead of transversing it. And third, many other people report the same thing with different big pipes. All that suggests to me is bad routing information.