I've Been Hacked!

Aaron's, who has been hacked more than once, has the first report on the attack on Six-Apart (TypePad, TypeKey, etc.) yesterday all night last night:

Contagious DDoS — Six-Apart

Since approximately 4:00 pm Pacific Daylight Time, Six Apart has been the victim of a sophisticated distributed denial of service attack. This has affected all of Six Apart’s sites, causing intermittent and limited availability for TypePad, LiveJournal, TypeKey, sixapart.com, movabletype.org and movabletype.com. Our network operations staff is working around the clock with our Internet access providers to resolve the issue. We appreciate your patience and support, and will provide updates as we have them.

Update, 11:36 pm PDT: Access and availability to our sites has improved. We continue to work closely with our Internet access providers and will monitor the situation through the night.

Updated 8:52 pm PDT

I’m curious if we’ll learn of the country of origin.

Here are some of the graphics from Aaron's past hackings, via Michelle Malkin:

Last week, cyberjihadists targeted Hosting Matters blogs twice in apparent retaliation for provocative photos posted by Hosting Matters blog Aaron's CC. Over 100 blogs went down.

Aaron e-mails to tell me that he has been hacked again tonight (11:15pm EDT update - he's back up). I captured the cyberjihadist's graffiti:

The hacker's moniker turns up a number of defacements on Google.

For the record: I do not approve of the cartoon Aaron posted that prompted the Saudi-based attacks, but every blogger in the 'sphere worth their bandwidth should vigorously defend his freedom to criticize, ridicule, and challenge the jihadis. If we let a few anonymous Muslim computer thugs dictate what one blogger can say about Mohammed or Islam, who's next? (Michelle Malkin)

Posting will be light as a result of this attack and other obligations today. Enjoy.

Michelle Malkin also has the story with links to past hackings.

Instapundit says that LiveJournal was also down.

Comments

[Mujahideen Ryder]

Shoot! That sucks. Honestly, that's pretty gay that a Muslim would do that. Hacking is haram. Any Islamic scholar would say that.