Qnet Confirmed That E-Commerce Portal Was Downward Due To Ddos Attack

QNet confirmed that E-commerce portal was downward due to DDoS attack

QNet has confirmed that its e-commerce portal was late the target of a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. This caused its primary website to last offline for over 36 hours.

QI Group information technology Director, TG Kintanar said, “As a global straight selling fellowship alongside a busy trading portal, it is non odd for QNet to teach a target for such attacks, although this has never happened before.” QNet is a subsidiary of the QI Group of Companies.

“Let me stress that the cyber-attack on our website was non the piece of job of hackers. The DDoS but blocked customers’ access to our services, causing them non bad inconvenience. However, every 2d QNet's online safety measures were inwards place, our client database remained intact throughout the attack. Nothing was compromised.” Kintanar said.

He added that upon noticing the laid on on March 9, the QNet information technology squad at i time started working round-the-clock to laid upwards an alternate transactional website thus that its customers could hold their trouble concern without interruption.

“We deliberately kept our website offline for unopen to fourth dimension every 2d the majority of these attacks increased substantially as well as nosotros worked to mitigate them. Hours later the initial attacks began, nosotros were able to restore amount functionality to http://www.qnet.net though nosotros restricted access to it.

“Taking a leafage from this experience, nosotros are working alongside cyber-security experts to farther strengthen our systems, ward off futurity attacks as well as provide to business-as-usual much faster,” Kintanar stressed.

In 2009, Facebook confirmed that it besides had teach a victim of DDoS. However, no user information was at opportunity as well as they besides restored amount access to the site inside hours.

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 yr earlier, inwards 2008, the CNN News website twice faced a DDoS attack. CNN fixed the attacks yesteryear limiting the seat out of users that could access the site from specific geographical areas.

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