Hacked ISP shuts down

NEWS Cloud Nine has been forced to close down its operations following a denial of service attack against its network late last week. The decision to close down operations - announced just a few hours ago - comes after silicon.com's report of the attack yesterday. The attack has crippled the ISP's entire network and according to a statement posted on ISP Review, the re-building of the network will cost too much. The six-year-old company has sacked its staff and is trying to sell all of its assets as quickly as possible to avoid bankruptcy. The company's CEO Emeric Miszti posted the following statement on ISP Review: "Cloud Nine regrets to announce that at 07:45(GMT) this morning the decision was taken to shut down our internet connections with immediate effect. "We tried overnight to bring our web servers back online but were seeing denial of service attacks against all our key servers, including email and DNS. These were of an extremely widespread nature. "We felt we had a moral duty not to expose our customers to possible attacks as well" The company's domain name servers will be transferred to Surftime.