HTX (formerly Huobi) and its subsidiary HTX Dao were recently hit by a DDoS attack.
Justin Sun, founder of TRON (TRX) and global advisor to HTX, On January 19 at 15.20 CET HTX Global and HTX DAO were attacked by DDoS in shared. The services provided through these platforms are approximately was interrupted for 15 minutes.
In the statement made by Sun all funds are safe highlighted:
Htx.com and HTX DAO were attacked by DDoS. We expect services to be restarted shortly. All funds are safe.
Sun said about this statement: The systems became operational again after 15 minutes. stated:
All Huobi HTX services have been restored. Thank you for your interest and support! All funds are safe!
A “Distributed Denial-of-Service” (DDoS) attack is a type of attack that sends a large amount of requests to a computer system or network, consuming resources and disrupting its normal operation. These types of attacks generally aim to make the services of a target system or network unusable.