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Old Jul 26, 2018 | 6:51 pm
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Originally Posted by IBobi
Just FYI, we pay Cloudflare a lot of $ to keep the site up during these attacks. They're our protector.
Originally Posted by COSPILOT
Maybe a horribly stupid question from me, but what would be beneficial of a hacker doing something with FT?
Perhaps I'm a cynic, but the DDoS attack certainly appears to be beneficial to Cloudflare. It's certainly not outside the realm of possibility that the "hacker" is a stakeholder.

Meanwhile, I am now unable to connect to Flyertalk at all on my older iPad Mini.
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