Joomla Web Site Under Attack
If you visit the JED frequently you may have noticed periods of extremely long connect times or occasional outages in the past few weeks.
This is because the site has had a series of denial of service attacks resulting from individuals or groups attempting to create a new extensions site by scraping the JED. These individuals created up to 12,000 simultaneous connections every day, for weeks, in order to gather this information. This action prevented legitimate users from being able to connect and use the JED as they should.