Right wing cyber attacks on Healthcare.gov website confirmed

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82. I get anywhere from 2000 to 6000

hits from injection attacks per day, about the same every few days from brute force attacks and several DoS attacks every once in a while... and that's just on one mail server alone. They barely make a dent. I've never had to shut down or have the services reset. Who ever tries to hit has .5 second to do their best before the IP they're using is blocked at the route for several hours. 99.99 percent of the time, the IPs are false so there is no tracking them. If the same IP attacks again after unblock, they go strait to the iptables for a month. Rarely does an IP get logged 5 times within half a second before they are blocked.

I'm sure the site was hit hard and the load is way over mine but I would imagine they would have many routes to redirect traffic. The attacks shouldn't happen but I'm not sure that would be an excuse for Internet problems.