Demonoid hit by DDoS attack

Update on August 1 - One week later, Demonoid still down after massive DDOS attack and Is Demonoid gone for good?

Demonoid has been hit by a massive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, bringing down the famous BitTorrent tracker to its knees. The torrent website has been inaccessible to its millions of users for more than a day and is expected to remain offline for quite some time.

As you can see in the screenshot above, Demonoid is currently serving up the following error message:

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I said this attack was "massive" because it has resulted in a series of problems that may take a while to address. Over the years, Demonoid has been down many times, sometimes disappearing for months.

"It started as a DDoS but then it caused a series of problems," Demonoid's admin told TorrentFreak. "These problems need to be fixed before the site can go back up, and it’s a complicated fix this time. There might have been an attack from another angle, an exploit of sorts, but it’s hard to tell right now without a full check of everything. Our human resources became limited in the last few months. All tech issues are handled just by me now and there is no one else to take the job. I’ll fix the site as soon as possible, but it might be a while this time."

It's currently unclear whether or not the attack against Demonoid was anti-piracy related. Either way, Demonoid's users have to find an alternative for their downloading needs while they wait for its return.

Update on August 1 - One week later, Demonoid still down after massive DDOS attack and Is Demonoid gone for good?

See also:

• Wikileaks has been under DDoS attack for the last three days
• Anonymous denies it is behind The Pirate Bay DDoS attack
• The Pirate Bay hit with massive DDoS attack
• The Pirate Bay criticizes Anonymous for DDoS attack
• The Pirate Bay returns, Anonymous hater takes credit for DDoS
• Anonymous hacks UK government sites over 'draconian surveillance'
• Anonymous hacks Vatican again