Acer, whose cloud computing unit handled the online ticketing for the nine additional Jody Chiang (江蕙) concerts that went on sale last week, yesterday said that its system deflected almost 40 million hacker attacks during the registration and sales process.
Some of the attacks had been launched from foreign locations, Acer chairman George Huang (黃少華) told a news conference, adding that the company would provide information about the attacks to the Ministry of Justice’s Investigation Bureau.
He declined to talk about the domestic or foreign sources of the attacks, saying only that Acer had blocked all of them after the attacks began when registration on the ticketing Web site opened on Monday last week.
There were nearly 310,000 registered members who simultaneously logged on to the ticketing site when the sale began at noon on Sunday, taking up less than half of the connection capacity Acer had prepared, Huang said.
All 90,000 tickets sold out within 30 minutes.
It was a big challenge for Acer’s cloud system to handle the huge data traffic during a short period of time, but the company achieved its four objectives: smooth operation of the cloud platform, high information security, fair sales process and quick ticket turnover, Huang said.
More than 340,000 people registered to purchase the tickets on the Web site and each person was allowed to buy up to four tickets, which meant that only about 10 percent of those registering to buy tickets were actually able to purchase them, Acer said.
Chiang, one of the biggest names on the Taiwanese-
language music scene, announced on Jan. 2 that she was ending her career this year with 16 farewell concerts.
Her announcement set off a rush for tickets, overwhelming the official ticketing site and convenience store ticketing kiosks nationwide during a three-day sale earlier this month, leaving many fans frustrated and angry.
To mollify her disappointed fans, Chiang said on Jan. 16 that she would hold nine more concerts at Taipei Arena in August and Kaohsiung Arena in September.
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