Date:
23 October 2007
Incident Type: Security Breach
WASC Threat Classification: Denial of Service
The site of the Rockies was taken down by a denial of service preventing fans from buying tickets for the World Series games.
Like any DDoS attack, it is very hard to know if it was an application layer or network layer attack, but since this attack had a very significant financial impact by crippling a web site, we think it deserve a place in WHID.
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