As of midnight GMT, start of Wednesday, November 25, San Francisco-based Bitcoin spot and margin exchange Kraken has this page showing, before loading page, and has reported receiving an extortion letter that they will not pay.
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This is not the first time Kraken has been targeted. During the bull-run earlier this month they were up and down and had periods where DDoS attacks brought down their servers for many hours in a row. This left some traders unable to get out of positions near the peak of the euphoria.
Bitcoin exchanges are some of the most popular targets of DDoS attacks, especially involving extortion. There is no incentive to pay: in fact paying would only make a company a bigger target for further attacks, as they would be known to be a payer of extortion demands.
Bitcoin exchanges are some of the most popular targets of DDoS attacks, especially involving extortion. There is no incentive to pay: in fact paying would only make a company a bigger target for further attacks, as they would be known to be a payer of extortion demands.
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