Jul 9, 2004 : Gambling Sites Down, Netcraft Says

📅 July 9, 2004 - According to research and analysis firm Netcraft (netcraft.com), online gambling sites Eurobet and Coral experienced periodic outages earlier this week, upon the completion of the European soccer championships and the Wimbledon tennis finals.

The outages follow a number of attacks on online gambling sites in the days preceding the European championships.
According to Netcraft, online gambling sites continue to be targeted in electronic attacks, often precipitated after an extortion attempt on the site is made.
UK-based Netcraft is currently monitoring the performance of twenty UK online gambling sites.

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