The attack began at about 0920 PDT (1620 UTC) and immediately flooded the company’s systems, particularly its DNS servers. DreamHost’s status page announces serious disruption to its hosting, web mail and virtual private servers, as well as depraved email performance.
DreamHost hit the headlines shortly this month when the US Department of Justice required 1.3 million IP addresses of citizens who visited disruptj20.org, a website organizing protests when President Trump’s inauguration that was received by the biz. The subpoena also required the contact information, submitted comments, email content, and photos of thousands of people who used the site.
The organization told the DoJ to beat it in polite legal terms and declared it would fight the case. On Wednesday, the DoJ withdrew and said it wouldn’t require all those IP addresses after all, but still wants unusual data on protestors.
So maybe DreamHost is under attack because of their followers, both in the US and overseas? Probably not. Instead, the attack looks to have started on the different side of the political spectrum and stems from different DreamHost customer.
On Thursday, DreamHost started hosting a new website named Punished Stormer. This is a reboot of the neo-Nazi-slash-white-supremacist Daily Stormer website that was shot like a rabid porcupine by the tech world after the death of a rebel at the Charlottesville presentations.
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