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Akismet Attack?

I have been using Akismet to protect my blogs against spam. It worked almost perfectly until yesterday. It has caught 5026 spam comments in my blogs in the last 3 months.

Surprisingly a lot of spam comments have been coming to my mailbox since yesterday evening (PST). They arrive like crazy, every a few minutes, I get mail from WordPress, “Please moderate comment, bla… bla….”

It seems some other bloggers have the same problem too:

Any hints what is happening in Akismet service?

I have installed Captcha! yesterday to prevent more spams coming to my mailbox.

Update (27-Aug-06): The problem has been fixed by Akismet team. Read their comment on their blog. The problem was caused by a small bug in their latest code.

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2 Responses to “Akismet Attack?”

  1. sjhoward Says:
    August 27th, 2006 at 3:08 pm

    Thanks very much for the link!

  2. Peter’s Web Development Blog » Blog Archive » Akismet goes down… Says:
    August 28th, 2006 at 5:27 am

    [...] UPDATE: The Akismet blog has an update on this - it seems to be back online and working for me. Apparently some new code broke the API, but it’s working again now. Thanks guys for the great service. Thanks also to Antony Pranata for (indirectly) leading me to this update (and linking to me in the first place!). [...]

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