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charmian posted a message with some links to statements about the LJ problems.

Google translate does strange things with URLs for me (and for some others, 'translating' the URL itself instead of the page referenced), so for reference this is the translated text from the LiveJournal link in ger post (http://www.livejournal.ru/themes/id/32601?from=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter). And yes, it does mention compensation to be announced for paid users. (Google translation, plus a few obvious oddities corrected by me.)

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LiveJournal announces new DDoS attacks on the service

* Post 13, July 27 at 11:19.

After collecting the necessary data, now LiveJournal administration can make an accurate conclusion about what caused the failure in communication providers data-center LiveJournal - DDoS attack was aimed at the service.

After a crash [on] July 25 2011, LiveJournal regained [its] job, but for a number of users and services on the site still [does] not work properly. The DDoS attack did not lead to a breach of integrity or a loss of already published content.

"[It] does not work, even [if we try to open] a console that would allow us to somehow understand what's happening with the network hardware (in this case the user data is still protected because of [the] LiveJournal Architecture), so the only source of information for us and other clients has been the site providers," said Ilya Dronov, Director of Product Development LiveJournal. "Later [it] was up and running [the] DDoS Mitigation Protocol, based on which it became evident that the traffic in our direction, averaged around 6 gigabits at peak levels of 8-gigabit (remember, in past times he was about 2 gigabits per peak), which, apparently, [is] a ceiling for Qwest and Verizon in this area."

Attacks continue and at the moment LiveJournal indexing by search engines is temporarily closed, resulting in delays in the appearance of fresh entries in the search results. Separately, we note that the recipients are not popular DDoS bloggers, the attackers are attacking IP service, thus, an attack aimed at LiveJournal as a whole. As we have noted in previous attacks, we have installed high-efficiency equipment, after the attacks in March and April we purchased and installed additional hardware, software and increased bandwidth, which helped to counter a much larger load, but now the attackers have changed tactics and impact on supplier relations.

All owners of the paid accounts that are active during the period of DDoS attacks on LiveJournal, will be offset by lost time - the compensation to be announced.

The company's specialists are working to resolve the problems, we apologize for any inconvenience. We thank the users for their patience and hope for your understanding.

Thanks to dmwcarol for the code.

If anyone notices me and wants to be added to my access list and I haven't already added you, please drop a note here. Or if you know other people who are on my LJ list but who I haven't identified here. A global list matching LJ names with DW ones would be good, but would probably violate some privacy laws or something...