Hackers attacked the website of daily fantasy sports giant DraftKings last month. Now the company is trying to fight back. On Friday, a federal judge in Massachusetts granted the company permission to file its own private investigation toward finding the identities of those behind the denial of service attack on Aug. 8.
The cyberattack lasted more than 20 minutes and flooded the site with three times the number of requests for information it normally receives, DraftKings revealed in court documents. No private customer or company data was compromised.
“We recently detected and immediately responded to a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack,” said DraftKings Chief Legal Officer R.