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The Escapist forums were brought down in a DDoS attack yesterday. Coincidentally when we mentioned the same #GamersGate story yesterday, the traffic to that one comment thread was five times as much as we'd see on a busy weekday. Launching DDoS attacks on sites that even discuss #GamerGate is pretty damn weak.
“A DDOS attack is currently underway against @TheEscapistMag. The attackers are specifically targeting the GamerGate forum thread,” Macris tweeted this morning. After a brief interlude the attacks began again, and eventually the publication was forced to take down the forums temporarily. The attack consists of “a large number of IP addresses targeted the GamerGate thread for reload many times per second.”