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SimilarWorlds is overloaded - what's happening

Hello,

In the past 3 days, we have been experiencing a number of DDoS attacks.
This means that many bots (from countless IP addresses) are attacking SW, all at the same time, for several minutes/hours, causing the site to go down (and you seeing a "SW is overloaded" error message).

We are currently working on a solution for this, but we're simply not ready yet to make the switch right now.

We're doing all we can, and we hope by tomorrow this will be fully mitigated, to prevent these attacks from being effective again in the future.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Your data is safe.

Kind regards.

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Heartlander · 80-89, M

Aren't there laws prohibiting such activity. If not we really need to demand congress impose stiff penalties to including blocking the servers where such activities come from.

helenS · 36-40, F

@Heartlander I don't think those servers are located in the US.

Heartlander · 80-89, M

@helenS Likely so, and maybe the whole country should be blocked.

TurtlePink · 22-25, F

@Heartlander there is but it’d be kinda hard to do that since these attackers are probably foreign and they use VPNs along with botnets across multiple countries, so it’d be difficult to trace and prosecute somebody doing it especially if they arent in the same country as the admins.

Heartlander · 80-89, M

@TurtlePink Understand, and this as well as the number of attempted blackmail emails I receive, it seems like the internet is open to sabotage by bad people with impunity.

TurtlePink · 22-25, F

@Heartlander so much evil out there.