Well, just to give everyone an update. I was contacted by the attackers, who are still attacking...and basically they are trying to blackmail me to get them to stop. Yes, I am not kidding. My site isn't down at the moment, as my host has been a ton of help in helping to mitigate everything. However, I am sure it isn't over.

I had something similar happen to me recently. They hacked my godaddy account and stole the two main domains for my site and tried to blackmail me to get them back. They thought I would care about google rankings and all that when they pointed my domains to a stupid web search page. However, I could care less about that and just went through the proper channels with godaddy and the new domain registrar and got the domains back after three weeks. In the meantime, I simply used one of our other domains for the site. Sure, it was a pain in the *** (my editing), but I wasn't about to give them the money they wanted.

Have you forwarded this correspondence to any other organization, such as local law enforcement?

It's considered hacking (obviously), and is a violation of international law. Contact a law enforcement agency. If the DDoS is coming from the US, contact the people listed below. Seriously. Since it's hacking of a computer (technically), contact these groups.

• FBI local office
• U.S. Secret Service
• Internet Crime Complaint Center

Source: http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/reporting.htm

If you live in another nation, find out how to contact them.

I was talking about core software, not your "partition" VPS Like installed software.

Everyone knows that on a VPS you cant fully control your server since it's a virtual server (thus the VPS) and other VPS share the same hardware rack or cpu. You only have access to your own VPS and not the Rack software.

Well, the attack is back folks. Like I said before, I was contacted by users from a website basically wanting me to advertise their site and they will stop the attack. Well, my host installed some very nice hardware to prevent the attack and it was working well for the past 2 weeks or so. Well, it's back and has hit almost 2.0Gbit/sec...boy oh boy. I know the attackers will be reading this, so feel free to contact me when you do.

Have you done anything like contact their ISPs? Do you know who the actual 'attackers' are?

I do. However, I cannot contact any ISP until I know their IP. Which, I am sure they have hidden in every way possible.

But you've their website name - don't you ? Maybe do a whois lookup and then contact the provider / hoster of the website forwarding the mails / messages they sent you and ask them to do steps against such form of aggressive marketing.

Good idea, except it won't help my website. It will just piss them off. If they have access to enough boxes to attack me with such a huge amount of bandwidth I am sure they have access to their own private box.