OcUK puts £10K bounty on DDoS varmints

OcUK puts £10K bounty on DDoS varmints

Wild West response to week-long hack attack

By John Leyden

22nd January 2009

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/22/ocuk_ddos_reward/

Overclockers.co.uk is offering a £10,000 ($13,830) reward for information leading to the conviction of attackers who have targeted the technology enthusiast site in a DDoS lasting over a week.

In a forum posting on Wednesday, Overclockers.co.uk (OcUK) placed a bounty of the head of cybercrooks who have mounted an attack that has left its online store and forum servers running at a crawl for the last ten days.

The money will be payable to anyone whose information leads to an arrest and conviction against the perpetrators of the attack. Tips can be submitted anonymously, by email.

OcUK stressed that the attacks are simply affecting the availability of servers, which are been flooded with a torrent of junk data as a result of the assault, and not the security of data held by or processed through the site. The site has likely suspects in mind, but needs more evidence to take to the police.

Over the last 10 days OcUK servers have been subject to sustained DDoS attacks that have disrupted our on-line store and forums servers. Instigating these kind of attacks is a serious criminal offence and whilst we have strong suspicions who is behind them we need more evidence.

I am offering £10,000 to anyone who can provide evidence that leads to a conviction. You can provide this information anonymously if you want to via jobs@overclockers.co.uk but the evidence must be something