"e-gold is experiencing a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack that began Tuesday October 18th at around 5:00 east coast US time. We are actively dealing with it and will continue to evaluate and implement countermeasures. This sort of attack fills the "pipeline" leading to the e-gold site, thereby blocking access to e-gold Users. It does not in any way threaten the integrity or security of the e-gold servers, infrastructure or data. In other words, the accounts, the gold - all the elements of value in e-gold - are intact and unaffected by an attack of this sort. In the meanwhile, t