Richards' own blog was Buy Fifa 14 Coins subsequently hit by a DDoSattack. VentureBeat also reports that Richards has been the targetof rape and death threats on Twitter, although such tweets haveapparently been deleted by Twitter.
The SendGrid website has also been unresponsive much of the day. The company has not confirmed thecause, although it's assumed to be a DDoS attack. (Hacktivist groupAnonymous is supposedly behindit.) Our SMTP and Web servers are currently down, SendGridwrote in a status update. A few hours later, the company providedsome good news: We're now accepting mail via SMTP & Web API.The Website is up, and we're working to finalize this resolution.Business customers have complained aboutthe outage impacting their operations.
On 21 March, SendGrid fired Richards. In a Facebookpost, SendGrid wrote, Effective immediately, SendGrid hasterminated the employment of Adria Richards. While we generally aresensitive and confidential with respect to employee matters, thesituation has taken on a public nature. We have taken action thatwe believe is in the overall best interests of SendGrid, itsemployees, and our customers.