If you had trouble trying to check your favorite cigar sales site on the Internet last weekend, you weren’t alone.

“Many of our customers have been wondering why our websites have been slow or inaccessible for the past five days,” wrote Famous Smoke Shop president Arthur Zaretzky in an e-mail message to his customers sent last night. “The problem was due to a targeted Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, similar to what has recently been happening to some large government websites, financial institutions, and e-commerce sites in the U.S. and abroad.

“These attacks occur when a flood of traffic is deliberately sent to a particular website in an effort to overwhelm the site and prevent legitimate users from getting through. This is exactly what occurred over the last five days to famous-smoke.com and to some of our competitors in the premium cigar industry. WE ARE NOW BACK, and I have taken steps to ensure that this cyber terrorism will never happen to Famous Smoke Shop again.”

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