I buy everything with paypal nowadays. It just feels a safer option. So there's only one company on the internet that has my credit card details, not 10.

Andy- Just for no particular reason: Modern credit card compliance requirements for eCommerce providers require that customer CC information not be stored or retained UNLESS the customer opts in to having it stored. (Some providers haven't yet gone into full compliance- but they are...) I get quite a bit of literature on CC security from our providers, and the VAST majority of CC fraud comes from restaurant handlers and hotel handlers of your credit cards... Wonder if they'll figure out how to do paypal at eateries!

Wonder if they'll figure out how to do paypal at eateries!

Now that would be fun..

Oh deary me, that came as a surprise. I certainly wasn't expecting the site to get hacked. Good luck to the PMDG team in getting this solved.

Everyone, please stop calling this event a "hack". It was a DDoS, which is entirely different. Try this for an analogy. The pathway into the PMDG servers is like a four-lane freeway and think of the servers themselves as the city or CBD. The staff at PMDG upgraded from two to four inbound lanes to cope with the expected traffic the release of the NGX would create. However, someone decided to invite thousands of his friends onto the freeway at the same time causing the traffic entering the server (city) to crawl to a standstill and instead of a nice steady flow of traffic into and out of the server (city), we've got the gridlock we saw today. Basically it was rush hour on steroids. That is, in simple terms, what a DDoS does - it's just flooding the server with more traffic it can handle. A hack is different. It is usually malicious, in that it will steal data or cause damage. Most targets of hacking require a fair bit of skill to carry our the attacks, while a DDoS is relatively easy to carry out by comparison. A hack could access private information if the hacker knows what they are doing, but a DDoS simply causes things to slow to a crawl or stop altogether. I hope this clears it up and stops people calling this a hack. Your personal data is safe in any event, as PMDG do not store your credit card information, as Robert has said more than once.

Mmm i wanna burn all the DDos PCs :D

any idea when the online be back again

an explanation of DDos attack http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack

Would it be possible to catch and prosecute those who are doing this?

This comes to mind... explains DDoS quite appropriately. http://xkcd.com/932/

I went to bed yesterday with everything being okay and woke up this morning and was like, wait, what did I missXD

just because of this attack, im not going to anymore Chinese Buffets