For anyone who doesn't know DAS Inc. is being targeted by an extortion group asking them to pay a bunch of bitcoins in order to prevent a DDoS attack (distributed denial of service). In other words, the group has a big botnet of computers and will flood DAS servers to take them offline unless they are paid. They did a small test attack the other day and took it offline for an hour or so and said they will attack again in a couple days if not paid so they are serious about it. @DASsupport on Twitter made an announcement about it on June 8th. DAS is preparing and planning ahead but just letting everyone know because if you're trading with one of these brokers the software may disconnect and be unable to reconnect during the attack. In other words, keep sizes small and make sure you have stop losses set in case the software disconnects you. Personally I will just be using a different account to trade for today and will just have a stop set on my one open position in DAS.
This is becoming a common thing (hackers extorting brokers and financial sites with a DDoS) but hopefully DAS has some safeguards in place to help. In the mean time, just be warned...the software can disconnect and stay offline at any time so make sure you don't get yourself into a bunch of positions that you can't get out of. If you need help you should be able to contact DAS through their live chat support but they will probably be slow since their #1 priority is going to be stopping the flood.
Oh internet, you scary!
Submitted June 10, 2015 at 09:01AM by ghostofgbt http://ift.tt/1Gyo2tY
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