[jimkukral]

http://www.incomediary.com/20-websites-making-the-most-money

Never seen Amazon hacked before. Wow.

 

[Monique]

 

[J.R. Thomson]

They are showing down for me... crazy stuff:

http://gizmodo.com/5980618

 

[Monique]

I've been all over the site today and it's been fine.

What makes you think it was hacked?

 

[Lummox JR]

That link you posted doesn't say anything about Amazon being hacked. Please post a substantiating link if you're going to post something that can incite panic. Thanks to CabanaBooks for posting something with actual information.

From the sound of it so far this doesn't sound like anything serious has happened, except that maybe part of Amazon's website has suffered a form of DoS. And maybe it's just a technical error, not an attack at all.

 

[jimkukral]

Wasn't just me. Read the gizmodo article. I see a "service unavailable" white page when I go to it. Took a screenshot but don't know how to upload an image here.

 

[jimkukral]

That link you posted doesn't say anything about Amazon being hacked. Please post a substantiating link if you're going to post something that can incite panic. Thanks to CabanaBooks for posting something with actual information.

My intent was to talk about how much money their losing. I thought that was more interesting. We all know it'll be back up shortly.

 

[Saul Tanpepper]

Not showing my Associates bar at the top and the "Welcome" shows me logged out, even after I re-login.

 

[A. S. Warwick]

Its working for me.

 

[Amanda Brice]

Working for me, too.

 

[Monique]

My intent was to talk about how much money their losing. I thought that was more interesting. We all know it'll be back up shortly.

I don't see anything about hacking in the gizmodo article. Am I missing it? No need for fear-mongering.

Also, if the entire site were down, yes, they'd be losing oodles of money, but it's not.

 

[Pnjw]

AMZ works for me, too.

 

[Lummox JR]

My intent was to talk about how much money their losing. I thought that was more interesting. We all know it'll be back up shortly.

A different choice of words is in order then, and I strongly advise you edit the subject line. When people hear about a major company's servers being hacked they assume the worst. They have every right to. This is the online equivalent of shouting "Fire!" in a crowded theater.

Merely saying a website is down is nowhere near as incendiary. A website can go down for any number of reasons.

 

[J.R. Thomson]

According to Twitter hackers are taking responsibility. They are threatening to do it again.

Update: Hacker group Nazi Gods has taken to Twitter to claim responsibility for the attack:

https://twitter.com/NaziGods/statuses/297069205247897600

 

[Amanda Brice]

Merely saying a website is down is nowhere near as incendiary. A website can go down for any number of reasons.

This.

 

[Rykymus]

For a few minutes after I saw this post, Amazon's home page was not loading, but product pages were. (Albeit slowly.) Now everything seems normal.

 

[Rachel Schurig]

A different choice of words is in order then, and I strongly advise you edit the subject line. When people hear about a major company's servers being hacked they assume the worst. They have every right to. This is the online equivalent of shouting "Fire!" in a crowded theater.

Merely saying a website is down is nowhere near as incendiary. A website can go down for any number of reasons.

Agree. This is a company that has access to the bank account info of many of us

The main page is down for me but I can still access product pages.

 

[dalya]

THEY MUST BE CHANGING THE ALGORITHMS!

 

[J.R. Thomson]

Ah yes, a Tweet makes it totally legit. Can they put me in the #1 spot? That would be totally awesome.

lol well, it was from the Gizmodo article earlier. They could be full of it though.

Someone else tweeted this:

Okay, Twitter was down, now Amazon is down, and NYT was hacked by the Chinese. CYBERTERROR THURSDAY!

 

[TexasGirl]

Many articles popping up about it.

http://betabeat.com/2013/01/amazon-homepage-down-for-some-users-hackers-claim-responsibility/

When a big site like Ammy goes down that way, it's usually a hacker's DDOS. Not sure why anyone would insist on a thread title change. We've seen this happen a fair amount with other sites. Not exactly the end of the world.