I'm Happy that this blackmail attack didn't affect my balance in UrOnlineBux...
By cutieweii
@cutieweii (374)
Malaysia
August 21, 2008 5:32am CST
Most of us know that UrOnlineBux was down for few days due to the DoS attacked that caused them to lost access to their site and mail. It happened because Uronlinebux didn't give in to the the person who sent black mails demanding for money or he will perform DoS attack to their (UrOnlineBux) server.
Today, the site is up again and they have installed a new software that hopefully will reduce future DoS attack. Just before login the site to check my balance there, I didn't put much hope to have my original balance back, with the thought that they might just restore the account back to their last database backup which maybe like few weeks or a month back.
But I was wrong with that assumption, I got my original balance restored reason being they did database backup every 6 hours and stored them on external hard drives outside the server. So, they claimed "No matter what happens to the server we can restore everything like it was before the attack".
This is a good practice, don't you reckon?
3 responses
@Ohara_1983 (4117)
• Kuwait
21 Aug 08
wow!!! it is good news that it no affected all thier client, muche better also they will have a backup with every 6 hours good idea for everyone too.just to protect thier own server.
@wallie (405)
• Sweden
21 Aug 08
Yes that is good, sounds like a legit site :)
It's the sites that claim that they don't do daily backups that gets me suspicious cause they would profit from being "hacked". There is no way any legit site would take weekly or even wait longer to make backups when it comes to handling with a lot of money.
@cutieweii (374)
• Malaysia
21 Aug 08
I'm not a member of 66bux so not sure what they are up to. As for Bux.to, I'm still waiting for my payment which was requested more than 6 months ago...so do not put much hope on it!