Major DDoS / Spam Attack on BiggerPockets This Morning

[Joshua Dorkin]

Hey BP Family - 

This morning BiggerPockets was attacked by what appears to be some kind of network of spammers, including folks from Korea, Hong Kong, Southern California and elsewhere. This may have been a simple spam attack or a DDoS. We're not sure of the intent, but obviously it wasn't positive. 

We've been working to ensure something like this can't happen again, but this is the first attack of this kind we've faced in the 10+ years the site has been around, so we're in the middle of working on countermeasures. We've had many DDoS attacks over the years, but none quite like this.

Meanwhile, I want to apologize to those of you who saw this, and I especially want to apologize to those who got email notifications for these posts.

Please bear with us as we deal with this and if you see something, say something.  Seriously -- just report any accounts that are spamming and we'll nail them.

Thanks for the patience.

Josh