WordPress.com blog service collapsed because of a DoS attack

The server hosting the blog WordPress.com was hacked from DoS last Saturday until the end of Tuesday morning (February 19), making it impossible for users of this site to log in and post on their blogs.

Matt Mullenweg, an Automattic spokesman who ran the blog, confirmed that WordPress.com was attacked by DoS with 6 gigabit of data traffic, making some blogs unreachable. The situation has only been restored yesterday afternoon.

However, in fact some users said that the current WordPress.com page has not returned to normal, because the post operation on personal blogs is sometimes not possible.

From last Saturday, WordPress.com sent an e-mail message to users that the site is under DoS attack, and that the attack could make the login process impossible, and the forum could disconnected from the network.

Also according to Automattic representatives, the main page Wordpress.com was "offline" longer than some blogs, because it sacrificed the main page recovery for users' blogs.

As the most popular attack method today, DoS is always chosen as an effective method to knock down a website with a large number of data queries that make the server overload and stop working.