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Hi all,
As adultwebmestar mentioned, TrafficBroker experienced a massive DDOS and several hacking attempts on August 6. As a result we have sent out e-mails to all of our publishers to remove all TrafficBroker.com ads until further notice. Furthermore, we have postponed all new registrations and no new accounts are being approved and allowed in the system.
Since then we have been taking ample steps towards preventing this from happening in the future. We have been and still are undergoing massive system updates aimed at preventing this exact type of situation. As you can imagine we could have patched things up quickly and asked you to put the ads back again. We haven't done that.
We understand that you rely on the loyalty of your bookmarkers and we, in turn, rely on your loyalty. We want to do our best to gain and keep that loyalty and for the past month that meant that we had to take a hard hit revenue wise. It wasn't cheap and it wasn't easy to turn down publishers and advertisers alike and we are investing a lot in securing the system.
As the people from black label have mentioned also, it is impossible to prevent this 100% of the times and we have had the misfortune of falling into the 0.1% of those situations when an ill-intended person managed to slip malware past our noses. That person will never be allowed to use TrafficBroker again and for the rest who might try we are implementing these new measures.
For the webmasters who have been using TrafficBroker.com ads since our announcement on Aug 6. We believe that we have the good fortune to be working with seasoned publishers who have the ability to decide for themselves what risks are acceptable for them. We have issued our recommendation and asked everybody to take the ads down, but TrafficBroker pays very well so I can understand why for some webmasters the risks outweighed the benefits. We do not and cannot control their actions. However, we will be paying for all traffic sent to us in this period.
We are still committing all our resources towards a resolution to this problem and believe me, we will be the first to let all our publishers know when to put the ads back up.
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