Hosting company 000webhost was under DDoS attack!

000webhost is a famous domain hosting company. Last year on 27th October, some hackers steal approximately 13 million usernames and passwords from the database of company by exploiting an Old version of PHP used by the official website of company. Email addresses, passwords, IP addresses and other information of users was include in it. But after that company recovered this issue and release an update for users.

Now 000webhost is in news once again. Recently some hackers performs DDoS attack on official website of company. Some particular servers has been affected by this attack. The firewall used by company was unable to protect the server from packet flooding.

Company published a note for their users,” We have just received a HUGE (over 3GB/s incoming traffic) DDoS attack targeting the server #29. Our CISCO guard firewall was unable to handle such attack, so one of the server IP address – 31.170.160.170 was disabled (all the rest websites on the server are working fine). If your website is using this IP (due to unique IP rotation system only 3% websites are using this IP) it will be unavailable for the next 6 hours. As soon attack will subside, this IP address will be enabled and your website will start working again. We thank you for your patience and understanding.”

But now all the websites, which are using IP address 31.170.160.170 are working.