The future of UK Internet Service Provider Cloud Nine's customers is still uncertain after sources within fellow ISP V21 revealed that talks regarding the sale of Cloud Nine's assets are still taking place. Cloud Nine was forced to shut down . . .

The future of UK Internet Service Provider Cloud Nine's customers is still uncertain after sources within fellow ISP V21 revealed that talks regarding the sale of Cloud Nine's assets are still taking place. Cloud Nine was forced to shut down its operations this week after becoming the victim of a Denial Of Service attack. The company had attempted to repel the onslaught, which included attacks on its e-mail and DNS servers, but on Tuesday it announced that it was closing down, and invited other ISPs to bid for its assets.

"We felt we had a moral duty not to expose our customers to possible attacks as well," explained chief executive Emeric Miszti in a statement. It is thought that Cloud Nine's insurance cover is not sufficient to pay for the cost of rebuilding its systems.

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