Basecamp Networks Brought Down By DDoS Attack

The company's founder and CTO says the attack is a blackmail attempt, but "we will never negotiate by criminals."

Basecamp, a widely-used project management tool formerly known as 37Signals, suffered a distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS) Monday morning that rendered its services (Basecamp, Highrise, Campfire, and Backpack) temporarily unavailable. "The goal is to make Basecamp, and the rest of our services, unavailable by flooding the network with bogus requests, so nothing legitimate can come through," Basecamp founder and CTO David H. Hansson wrote in a post on Github Gist. He reassured users that their data is safe, and the attackers only want to blackmail the company into paying to avoid future attacks.

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