Hackers Attack Feedly When Extortion Attempt Fails

Feedly, the popular news aggregator, has experienced further attacks from hackers after saying it was being extorted. Evernote, another internet-based business, also experienced demands for money from hackers and was hit with a hacker attack when they refused to pay.

Feedly attacked by criminal hackers

“Criminals are attacking feedly with a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS),” Feedly said in a blog post at 2:04 AM (PST) on June 11. “The attacker is trying to extort us money to make it stop. We refused to give in and are working with our network providers to mitigate the attack as best as we can.”

After saying the...