BitMEX: a total of 40.297 BTCS will be refunded to customers affected by a DDoS attack on the platform that went down on March 13

BlockBeats news, BitMEX announced today that it will compensate users for the two distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on its platform last Friday (March 13).

The announcement said that on Friday (March 13), the BitMEX platform suffered two distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks at 02:16 and 12:56 UTC. These attacks delayed or blocked requests from the BitMEX platform, causing direct interference to users. At 02:16 UTC, a botnet began a DDoS attack on the BitMEX platform. Soon after, the platform discovered that the botnet had launched a similar but unsuccessful attack on Feb. 15, a month earlier. According to interview records, BitMEX believed that the attackers had identified BitMEX as a target in February and had been waiting for the best time to attack, which was then given to the attackers by a surge in trading volume caused by Tuesday's huge market swings.

After analysis, the BitMEX team identified 156 accounts, and for each stop triggered by an error during the outage, BitMEX calculated the increment to the printed index price and refunded the user for a total of 40.297 XBT.

The original address: https://blog.bitmex.com/how-we-are-responding-to-last-weeks-ddos-attacks/

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