WordPress.com, a blog publishing platform, was recently a target of a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS). Founder Matt Mullenweg disclosed to TechCrunch that the attacks started Thursday, and lasted until Friday. Normal operations in WordPress came back just this Sunday.
Basically, a DDoS attack is an attempt to disable a computer resource from functioning for its intended users. It is usually done by overwhelming a website with so much data, which results to slowing the website, or making it totally unavailable. These attacks were deemed by WordPress as the largest in its six years of existence.
Furthermore, WordPress identified that 98% of the attacks from Thursday to Friday originated from China, and that it was politically motivated. The Chinese responded that “The allegation that China supports hacking is groundless.”
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