March 2014 – 48,600 accounts affected
In March 2014, Quantum Booter, a service that provides distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks to paying customers, was hacked and 48,600 member accounts were stolen including information pertaining to email addresses, IP addresses, passwords, private messages and usernames.
In March 2014, Quantum Booter, which is a service provided to paying customers that will issues a denial of service (DDoS) on websites, was breached and approximately 48,600 member accounts were disclosed online including those members' email addresses, IP addresses, passwords, private messages and usernames.
A distributed denial of service, or DDos, is an attack on another person's website that will often result is the site being taken down and possibly also infected with a virus. Quantum Booter's website markets themselves as a service to see if your own website can handle a DDoS attack and does not specifically state that it's a service that will issue the DDoS on a third-party's website.