Bitfinex experienced a notice incident on December 4, 2017, lasting 3h 17m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Update timeline
- monitoring Dec 04, 2017, 12:41 PM UTC
The platform is under heavy load. We are working on bringing the platform back to normal operations.
- monitoring Dec 04, 2017, 12:54 PM UTC
The cause is a DDoS attack. A person or group is intentionally trying to cause the platform to not operate normally. The level of DDoS protection is being adjusted to fend off the attack.
- monitoring Dec 04, 2017, 01:26 PM UTC
The platform is returning to normal operations. We will keep monitoring the situation closely.
- resolved Dec 04, 2017, 03:59 PM UTC
Platform returning to normal.