On: Mtgox stops trading for 12 hours

[dmm]

It's other people that have blamed this on a DDoS attack. MtGox themselves have explicitly denied it.

https://mtgox.com/press_release_20130411.html

""" First of all we would like to reassure you but no we were not last night victim of a DDoS but instead victim of our own success! """"

[FireBeyond → dmm]

Success for an exchange that makes money on trades whether the price is going up or down is a very different beast to success for someone losing half the value of their investment...