Paid Again By ThinkBux!

Wow! Another USD5.00 requested and received today from ThinkBux. Highly Recommended!

Poor Bux.to is having a bad time. It's been hit by hackers, a DDoS attack. Fortunately, Bux.to is sorting things out. Unfortunately, they have had to ban NEW users from The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (what a mouthful! ;) ) where the attacks must have originated from. Hopefully they will allow new users from there again when all this gets sorted out.

Other PTC's, like NeoBux have had the same thing happen. Just recently there have been heaps of PTC's inaccessible. I still can't log into some of them.

It seems that some hackers have been trying to extort money from PTC's by threatening (and carrying out) Distributed Denial of Service attacks if payment is refused. Bux.to has at least traced these attacks and has hired an International Lawyer specialising in Internet Crime to pursue the perpetrators. They are also putting in measures to minimise damage.

Fortunately, with these types of attacks, NO DATA IS LOST... it just means the "bad guys" try to paralyse computer networks by sending huge amounts of data simultaneously from many individual computers... THAT'S WHY Bux.to and other sites have been inaccessible. It's all pretty mean-spirited and causes a lot of havoc and headaches.

So, keep trying the sites, especially Bux.to, they WILL come back, but expect some ups and downs as they get things sorted.  Bux.to is moving to new servers as well, so hopefully there will be added protection when they do.