ClixSense hit by cyber attack

United States
November 24, 2011 5:55pm CST
ClixSense is reporting on their home page that they were hit by a cyber attack and have reported it to the FBI to catch the thieves as they put it. They apologize for any down time. I had trouble reading some of my ads this afternoon. I did not have any problems in the morning. I have had a lot of trouble trying to use the swagbucks search bar. I get messages about not browser not being able to connect. Other members are having the same problems also. it has been like this off and on all day long. It might be that the search bar is being heavily used because of The Thanksgiving Holiday. Anyone else noticing any problems with their browsers or search bars?
2 responses
Jhovarie
@Jhovarie (1168)
• Philippines
25 Nov 11
hackers can attack victims computer if the hackers software tools was installed to a victim computer. i guest ClixSense has installed unknown software to their server and hackers attack them.
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bostonphil
@bostonphil (4459)
• United States
25 Nov 11
I am not tech savvy enough to understand how these things happen. It is too bad that hackers do not use their intelligence for better purposes.
Jhovarie
@Jhovarie (1168)
• Philippines
25 Nov 11
hackers are not intelligent people or genius people they are normal people but they are developer that they use their skill on evil.
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DoctorDidi
@DoctorDidi (7018)
• India
25 Nov 11
Just before logging in mylot, I worked at ClixSense but I did not encounter any such problem, it might be that the problem has already been solved.
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bostonphil
@bostonphil (4459)
• United States
25 Nov 11
Agreed. Problem apparently has been solved. When I logged into clixsense later, the notification had been removed. I was also having problems with swagbucks search bar. I wonder if that was due to the same problem. That seemed to resolve itself last night also.