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Taiwan High Speed Rail Website Hit By DDoS Attack

Shelley Shan writes in The Taipei Times:

Travelers planning to go home during the Lunar New Year holidays had trouble booking a high speed rail ticket online yesterday morning, as hackers tried to prevent buyers from logging onto the system.

The online ticketing system of the Taiwan High Speed Rail Co. (THSRC) was activated at 12am yesterday for those scheduled to travel between Feb. 1 and Feb. 12.

The Lunar New Year holidays begin on Feb. 6, or Lunar New Year's Eve, and ends on Feb. 11.

However, interested buyers said they could not access the rail company's Web site.

THSRC spokesperson Ted Chia (賈先德) said yesterday that the firm's technical specialists later identified the problem as hackers attempting to block other requests, as some of the requests were sent simultaneously from the same Internet Protocol (IP) addresses.

posted by Fergie @ 1/05/2008 10:14:00 PM