Investigating Denial-of-service attack

Incident Report for Bitfinex

Resolved

Platform stabilizing. The team will continue to monitor the situation closely.
Posted Dec 13, 2017 - 03:03 UTC

Update

Progress is being made to mitigate the denial of service attack.

One component of the denial of service attack is to create hundreds of thousands of new accounts, causing stress on the infrastructure. For that reason, please note that new user signups have been temporarily disabled to help defend against the attackers and improve platform service for existing customers.
Posted Dec 12, 2017 - 22:17 UTC

Identified

Some services returning online with reduced performance. Continuing work to mitigate the attack.
Posted Dec 12, 2017 - 16:06 UTC

Investigating

We are currently under heavy DDOS. API is also down. We are working on further mitigation.
Posted Dec 12, 2017 - 15:00 UTC