Is Cigars International out of business?

[zackly]

Originally Posted by Juicestain

Same here. Monster is in and out randomly for me.

Maybe Cigar Monster is dead as a stand alone site?
It can be accessed from the Famous Smoke Shop homepage. In fact I just ordered a bundle of their Famous Nicaraguan 4000.

[suretolose]

Maybe the state of Minnesota is trying to figure out how much tax I owe them.

[Raybird]

CI site seems to be running at the moment...

[Jim2903]

Nope -- still down, seconds ago ...

[apevia]

I placed an order last night....is it not going to ship today because the site is down?!?!? How upsetting!

[cherrymax]

No. Apparently there is a server or routing problem in that area of the state. Famous and Cigarmonster are experiencing the same intermittant outage. Fortunately, my order is being delivered today.

[Jim2903]

Another day without CI ...

On the bright side, I'm not spending anymore money ... except during those brief windows when the site comes back up ...

[jedipastor]

I assume you guys have heard by now that CI and Famous (as well as all affiliated cites, such as cbid) were (and still are) victims of cyber-terrorism, specifically DDoS attacks. I haven't heard whether any headway is being made by the FBI, but they are notorious for dragging their feet in these cases.

Personally, I am suspicious of the anti-tobacco lobby, who feels that under the current administration they essentially have a blank check for their activities. I find that more plausible than thinking that a competitor site was responsible.

[2Curious]

Originally Posted by jedipastor

I assume you guys have heard by now that CI and Famous (as well as all affiliated cites, such as cbid) were (and still are) victims of cyber-terrorism, specifically DDoS attacks. I haven't heard whether any headway is being made by the FBI, but they are notorious for dragging their feet in these cases.

Personally, I am suspicious of the anti-tobacco lobby, who feels that under the current administration they essentially have a blank check for their activities. I find that more plausible than thinking that a competitor site was responsible.

There were lots of sites hit with this DDoS attack simultaneously! I started a list here...The Monster is Back
anyone know of anymore.

The sites and companies I know so far that were affected, are big and small. This was organized and planned. Scary!