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On August 15, 2013, All is Brawl came under a sustained [[Wikipedia:Denial-of-service_attack|distributed denial-of-service attack]] (DDoS attack). Other sections from the "All is" network were affected as well. The following day, Smashboards suffered an intrusive attack that led to a reset that lost the forum roughly 10 hours of data. On August 25, Smashboards went down, initially reporting that it was experiencing server issues{{ref|DDoS1}} and later confirmed that the site was also under a sustained DDoS attack{{ref|DDoS2}}. It is unknown if the Smashboards intrusion on 15 August is related to its DDoS attack on August 25. On August 27 the [[Project M]] website became the third site to go down as a result of a DDoS attack.

All three sites remained mostly unresponsive until August 28 when Smashboards briefly went back up before trying the CloudFlare anti-DDoS service. [[AlphaZealot]] reported that owners from each site were working together to find a solution. {{ref|DDoS3}} Project M webmaster [[Warchamp7]] later told video game blog site Kotaku that "the only viable solution to the problem at this moment is expensive and not something we can easily pursue," but added there were plans to mitigate the attacks if they continued{{ref|DDoS4}}.