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[Resolved][Severity: Moderate][DDoS]

HinaProject: DDoS attack on "Shosetsuka ni Naro", causing connection failures and emergency maintenance

DDoS attacks on the novel site "Shosetsuka ni Naro" continued from June 14. On June 17 its top page became hard to reach, and it halted input features for emergency maintenance.

Disclosed

2024-06-17

Organizations involved

1

Leaked or at risk

Unknown

Downtime

Unknown

What happened

  1. Abnormal access thought to be a DDoS attack on the site began to occur intermittently. Connection failures happened on June 14 and June 16. [1]

  2. At 15:55 it said that, working with its data center operator, it had prevented a complete outage, but that further connection failures and emergency maintenance were possible. At about 18:30 a DDoS attack occurred and pages such as the top page and the posting page became hard to reach. From 21:15 it ran emergency maintenance that halted all features involving entering, deleting or updating data. It finished at 21:50 and the site worked normally again. [1] [2] [3]

Timeline

  1. Started, Detected 2024-06-14
  2. Disclosed 2024-06-17
  3. 3 days

Attack or cause

Method
[DDoS]
Impact
[Service outage]
Entry point
Unknown

Data exposed or at risk

–

Organizations involved

Open in organization search

Sources

  1. [1][Official]小説家になろうグループサイトへのネットワーク攻撃発生についてのお知らせHinaProject Inc. · 2024-06-17
  2. [2][Official]【復旧済み】小説家になろうグループ接続障害のお知らせHinaProject Inc. · 2024-06-17
  3. [3][News]「小説家になろうグループ」に DDoS 攻撃、アクセスしづらい状態にScanNetSecurity · 2024-06-27 08:05