[Rogean]

I guess I should make a post here for an official comment.

The reason that was given to me for this round of DDoS attacks was that the attacker's friend was banned for abusing the recent stacking issue with the merchants to generate free platinum.

The attacker did have a demand: That we release to him the full source and database. Not that I even considered it for a second, but if we had, I'm sure he would have taken it, released it to the public (or attempted to run his own public), then continued to flood our bandwidth anyways.