A determined series of Distributed Denial of Service attacks took place late last week on America’s Cardroom and its Winning Poker Network, stretching from Thursday into the Saturday of the Labor Day weekend holiday and disrupting player services and tournaments.
It is not known whether there were attempts to extort money from the company, but the attacks were successfully mitigated and players appropriately compensated.
One of the positive features of the incident was ACR’s first class player communications throughout; the company kept players in the picture with regular Twitter and social media posts.