Not a good time for the Amazon website to crash, is it?!

[ampere]

Like 9pm on a Sunday evening, 13 days before Xmas.

Please don't make me go into Southampton again!

Shit! It's not the bloody wikileaks thing is it?

Yep according to twitter its wikileaks

nooooooooooooo

So why are these wikileaks thingy doing it?

I mean why would they want to annoy some many people in the general public by doing something like this?

It's all publicity and it hurts the sites as they can't trade...

i am cross

Because Amazon pulled the wikileaks website from it's server (possibly under pressure from US Government) - so they're paying them back

i ordered this morning so hopefully they are too usy packing my order!!

I don't know anything about wkileaks (kind of fudged over the news of late)= presumably they are just some form of trouble causers or something then?

A couple of days ago they said they weren't going to do it (although technically they were talking about the .com site then, and it seems to be the European sites that have been brought down)

Didn't they not do amazon initially, even though they'd planned to, and do paypal instead?

It's so, so, so annoying!

When they did it to Mastercard and Visa they only went down for about 12 hours so will hopefully be back to normal tomorrow.

It's taken down M&S too.

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Do they break their whole systems, or just the websites? Ie. can they still fulfil orders that were made before it crashed?

It's just the website IFAIK

Not just Amazon. Payment systems are wobbling a bit too. It's a DDoS attack. There's going to be quite a few going down. This will effect payment transfers overnight so if anyone is getting paid tomorrow bear in mind it may take a bit longer.

My M&S is working

FlamingoBingo - all they have done is attacked the front end of the website. The back end servers and the payment servers are elsewhere and hopefully are separate enough not to fuck up. Of course they won't be able to send their courier manifests out tonight so it might delay anything being packed.

and I can get on Amazon now too

The Operation Payback group targeting Visa, Mastercard, Paypal and Amazon are "Anonymous" a kind of loose Web collective of hackers rather than anything directly to do with Wikileaks themselves.

Amazon are being targeted because Amazon Web Services booted WikiLeaks off its server. PayPal, MasterCard and Visa are being targeted because they froze donations to WikiLeaks.

both of mine are working now

Amazon is working now

So the equilibrium in my space/time continuum has been restored and I can go back to acquiring? Phew!

I find it very disturbing that this wikileaks fiasco is causing so much havoc.