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Re:Mtgox stops trading for 12 hours by dmm on Thursday April 11, 2013 @11:08AM (#5532402)
It's other people that have blamed this on a DDoS attack. MtGox themselves have explicitly denied it.

https://mtgox.com/press_release_20130411.html

""" First of all we would like to reassure you but no we were not last night victim of a DDoS but instead victim of our own success! """"

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Re:Mtgox stops trading for 12 hours by FireBeyond on Thursday April 11, 2013 @11:49AM (#5532701)
Success for an exchange that makes money on trades whether the price is going up or down is a very different beast to success for someone losing half the value of their investment...
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