Tuesday, June 13, 2006

UK Betting Sites Hit By Outages During World Cup

Via Netcraft.

Several popular UK-based betting online betting sites have been hit by brief outages this morning, interrupting wagering on the World Cup. Sites operated by BetDirect and UKBetting were offline for periods of between 45 minutes and two hours during the same general time period.

Industry observers say as much as £1 billion ($1.84 billion U.S.) could be wagered on this year's World Cup, five times the betting volume for the 2002 event. It's not clear whether heavy traffic was a factor in today's outages, but that type of betting volume makes downtime quite expensive for online bookmakers. Historically, betting sites have been targeted by DDoS extortionists during major sporting events.

More here.

posted by Fergie @ 6/13/2006 03:15:00 PM

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