Talkthetour.com Suffers At The Hands Of Script Kiddies

After teasing fans with a web-based tour announcement system, Coldplay's finally made its winter itinerary public.

In an apparent bid to fuel egos, Coldplay announced an upcoming tour, but directed fans to its talkthetour.com site for routing. Once there, visitors learned that the site would need to rack up 33000 hits to reveal each tour date to support this year’s X&Y, aversion.com has reported.

Thanks to a combination of obsessive fans and script-kiddies running neutered denial-of-service scripts on the web site, talkthetour.com peaked on 9th November.

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