Ran across this article on WHIR this morning and thought that it was pretty interesting. Apparently a website operated by The Colorado Rockies that handles ticketing for their games had some issues staying online while a lot of people were trying to get tickets to the world series games, here is a Link to Web Host Industry News | FBI Investigates Ticket Site “Attack” and an excerpt:
“We have initiated an investigation into whether or not the server [used in selling the tickets] was compromised deliberately … whether or not there was a deliberate intrusion [that] compromised the site,” said Laura Eimiller, spokeswoman for the FBI in Los Angeles, California.
The server was operated by Irvine, California-based Paciolan, the vendor for selling the World Series tickets. Eimiller says agents have contacted Paciolan officials. While she could not say whether the investigation was triggered by a complaint by the Rockies, she did mention that the FBI had received “a number of calls” regarding the site crash.
The website apparently received about 8.5 million hits on it that were registered in their logs or analytical suite but the provider hosting the site / application reported that there was an external malicious attack on the site that brought it down. The FBI is looking into the issue, not for sure where a report on their findings will be posted, if it is at all, but this just goes to show the world that we live in these days. The article goes on to say that despite the slow processing times for ticket purchases, 50,000 tickets were sold just after a few hours of launching it. wow!
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