Hackers demanded from Feedly a ransom for the cessation of DDOS attack

On Wednesday, June 11, the Feedly cloud service announced that he had undergone DDOS attacked. A group of unknown hackers invited the leadership to pay a ransom so that the increased load on the company's servers stops, according to a message on a corporate blog . Prior to this, other similar online services have been subjected to similar attacks.

As of 17:30 Moscow time, access to the Feedly accounts for users was still closed.

“We refuse to give up, and together with network providers we fight to soften the consequences of the attack,” the statement said.

On Tuesday, Evernote and Deezer accounts stopped responding to users' requests, Inquirer writes . Both during the day on Wednesday resumed work. All victims of attacks assure the users that neither the information that is stored in the cloud, nor their personal data were injured.

Feedly provides the opportunity to use the RSS cloud service (personalized aggregation of news headlines), Evernote-online organizer, Deezer-musical streaming site. The popularity of Feedly increased sharply after Google decided to close his Reader application since July 1, 2013. In three months, the number of service subscribers increased by one and a half times - up to 12 million people.

In March 2013, the Evernote service was hacked by a group of unknown attackers, and a personal data leak of more than 50 million subscribers. Administrators were forced to be forced to change passwords from all users.

In April 2014, a number of popular sites in the Russian segment of the Internet were subjected to DDOS atams: Torrent tracker Rutracker.org, TKS Bank, Interfax, Alfa Bank, Promsvyazbank, Komsomolskaya Pravda and others. Before the attack, the hackers turned to the site administrators demanding a ransom of $ 1000 to $ 2000. The attackers could not catch, the sites quickly restored the work.

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