# 2018/08/08 - DDoS Attack!

**URL:** <https://forums.eveonline.com/t/2018-08-08-ddos-attack/96395>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [August 8, 2018, 8:29pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/2018-08-08-ddos-attack/96395 "2018-08-08T20:29:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 152

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Whitehound](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/whitehound/32/59604_2.png) [@Whitehound](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Whitehound)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2018, 9:49pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/2018-08-08-ddos-attack/96395/152 "2018-08-08T21:49:40Z")

</div>

> [@PSA - What is a DDOS, and why you shouldn't piss and moan](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/psa-what-is-a-ddos-and-why-you-shouldnt-piss-and-moan/96432/1):
>
> TLDR, there’s precious little CCP can do to mitigate a DDOS. This is true for literally every other service on the internet.

CCP is actually doing something about it. They let their traffic run through a DDoS mitigation specialist. This is a company with a huge Internet connection and they filter the network traffic live and “scrub” it, meaning, they toss out all, which looks suspicious. This is why many people today could stay in the game and haven’t even noticed the attack.

So 👍 for CCP’s effort against these odds.

---

_[View the full topic](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/2018-08-08-ddos-attack/96395)._