
Originally Posted by
SrslySirius
What are you disagreeing with? That this is an unsustainable way of manipulating price, or that the motive for the attacks is profit?
FWIW, a DDoS attack is not a hack. Nobody has broken into MTGox and accessed any sensitive data. It's essentially the same thing as having a few billion people visit the website and click refresh over and over again. The result is that the site runs slow or goes down. These attacks are pretty common and usually don't last all that long, if the victims have a clue what they're doing. Even Seals recovered from a DDoS after a day or two.