He said the attacks were traced to powerful computers in Boston, New York and Chicago, and that Buy. Com planned to contact the FBI on Wednesday. Yahoo Inc. President Jeff Mallet confirmed Tuesday that the FBI also is investigating the sabotage against his company and will meet with engineers over the next few days. Mallet said the company, which makes most of its money from Internet advertising, does not anticipate a serious financial impact. Among the Internet underground, where craving for publicity often fuels dramatic attacks against high-profile computers, no one claimed responsibility for the moves against eBay, Amazon, Yahoo or Buy.
Bad people do bad things.
Mallet estimated that during the attack's peak, Yahoo was drowning in one gigabit of incoming data every second. That's an incredible amount. 800 megabits a second Buy. Com's chief executive estimated his site Tuesday was hit with 800 megabits every second, or eight times his site's capacity. Such attacks are similar to pranksters repeatedly dialing a company's telephone number to block all other incoming calls.