All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part V

[GethN7]

Has anyone tried to ascertain the identities of the group(s) responsible for the DDoS and their reason(s) for doing it?

 

Unfortunately, we have no solid leads since all their communications (read: threats) have been through known proxies used by Tor nodes, botnets, and deep web IPs, but we do know for sure that whoever is responsible has a grudge against Orain and Dusti, alleging, among other things, that Orain sells private data, a charge I can and would claim before any court of law to be completely false, and they threatened to hand over sensitive information relating to Orain's servers to various parties on the clearnet (the ordinary internet) if we didn't knuckle under and leave their harrassment and false charges up.

I cannot reveal what information they intended to divulge, as we are still investigating the severity of the alleged threat and its seriousness, but it is enough of a threat we will be reviewing our security arrangements and likely further upgrading them to prevent further attacks, and even if this is just a bluff by some coward behind 7 proxies, rest assured I and the rest of Orain are taking this deadly seriously and plan to make sure such threats will not compromise the privacy of its users nor the content we host.