Bitfinex incident

Denial of Service

Minor Resolved View vendor source →

Bitfinex experienced a minor incident on February 21, 2017, lasting 52m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Feb 21, 2017, 09:34 PM UTC
Resolved
Feb 21, 2017, 10:26 PM UTC
Duration
52m
Detected by Pingoru
Feb 21, 2017, 09:34 PM UTC

Update timeline

  1. investigating Feb 21, 2017, 09:34 PM UTC

    Investigating what seems like a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.

  2. monitoring Feb 21, 2017, 09:47 PM UTC

    We have taken steps to identify and block the attack. The system is returning to normal.

  3. resolved Feb 21, 2017, 10:26 PM UTC

    Situation under control. Monitoring.