All Forum Posts by: Joshua Dorkin

Folks - We're pretty adept at this and have dealt with many attacks over the years.  Even the biggest sites out there face outages from these kinds of things. We have Cloudflare and other countermeasures in place.

Thanks for the suggestions . . . 

We're on it ;)

Josh

Hey BP Family - 

This morning BiggerPockets was attacked by what appears to be some kind of network of spammers, including folks from Korea, Hong Kong, Southern California and elsewhere. This may have been a simple spam attack or a DDoS. We're not sure of the intent, but obviously it wasn't positive. 

We've been working to ensure something like this can't happen again, but this is the first attack of this kind we've faced in the 10+ years the site has been around, so we're in the middle of working on countermeasures. We've had many DDoS attacks over the years, but none quite like this.

Meanwhile, I want to apologize to those of you who saw this, and I especially want to apologize to those who got email notifications for these posts.

Please bear with us as we deal with this and if you see something, say something.  Seriously -- just report any accounts that are spamming and we'll nail them.

Thanks for the patience.

Josh

Hey All - This was an attack unlike any we've seen before.  I apologize profusely and I'm especially sorry to those people who got email alerts for these junk posts.

We've been working on the issue and will be focused on this to make sure it doesn't continue.

Yes.  We were hit by a MAJOR attack this morning -- unlike anything we've ever seen before.  It looks like we've got it in check for the time being.

Hey guys - We're working on it -- never seen an attack like this before.  We've got a few of us working on it..... please bear with us.

Wow! That's a LOT of posts! Nice work.

This might help:

The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to Real Estate Wholesaling

Read that, check out our wholesaling forum, and listen to the podcast episodes we did on the topic.  That should get you started.

@J Scott - What specific files aren't working?  I just downloaded 4 of your files without any problem.  Can you point to the URLs that aren't working?

It works fine for me on my phone. What phone are you using?

Can you try with another browser.  Still having problems?

Welcome to BiggerPockets, @Eddie Memphis!  Thanks for joining BiggerPockets.