Longer Page Load Speeds on WordPress Platform
Incident Report for LexBlog
Resolved
For the last hour, our servers have been stable and it appears this issue is resolved.

As always, we will continue to monitor sites and our overall server health and will immediately act in the event of a future incident.
Posted May 07, 2014 - 11:51 PDT
Update
While working to mitigate the unusually high traffic typically associated with a DDoS, our team noticed a second issue - "hot linking" of images on our sites. Our systems team responded by replacing "hot links" with this image: http://i.imgur.com/g7ptdBB.png

An unanticipated consequence of globally applying that image to hot linked images was that some parts of the administrative area (back-end) of sites rely on "hot linked" images we control.

We immediately corrected this in the blog administrative area.

To confirm, at no time were LexBlog sites compromised, and the image (http://i.imgur.com/g7ptdBB.png) was put in place by our team.

If you are seeing the image in the editor of your blog, perform a "hard refresh" (CTRL+R for PC) of your browser to clear the image.
Posted May 07, 2014 - 11:37 PDT
Monitoring
We are mitigating a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) against our WordPress platform. Visitors will experience longer page load speeds while our IT team works to block the attack. Learn more about DDoS attacks by watching this video http://youtu.be/0VutW15kEZM/ or reading this security tip from US-CERT http://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/tips/ST04-015/.
Posted May 07, 2014 - 10:31 PDT
This incident affected: The LexBlog Platform (LexBlog Platform 1).