Only those of us who have been working on family research this week (this does not include me!) would know about this: here's an explanation from the June 19 Family Tree Magazine newsletter about the problem at Ancestry.
"In case you haven't heard, Ancestry.com was down part of Monday and most of yesterday, and intermittently today, due to what the company says was a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack. Find A Grave and RootsWeb also were affected.
In such an attack, multiple perpetrators use "bots" to bombard a website with traffic, so that the site can't respond to legitimate traffic. Both Evernote and Feedly were targets of DDoS attacks last week; their attackers demanded payment to stop the attacks.
On its Facebook page and in a statement, Ancestry.com said the attack has been neutralized, but users may still experience intermittent outages or slowness while the site recovers. They should clear their cookies and cache before logging back on. Family Tree Maker users should switch the program's sync setting to manual until service is fully restored.
No Ancestry.com members' family tree or personal data were compromised in the attack.
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