In 2006, a series of online attacks were directed toward e-commerce businesses, shattering the young online market in Vietnam. “A dark corner in e-security in Vietnam” was a comment agreed upon by many who attended the conference on violations and crimes in e-commerce organised by the Department of E-Commerce (Ministry of Trade) on November 9, 2006. According to VNCERT (the Vietnam Computer Emergency Respond Team at the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications), a series of 2006 online attacks seriously threatened e-commerce in Vietnam. The most notorious incident happened in March 2006 when the e-commerce website of Vietco JSC suffered a severe DDoS attack. All online services were delayed for a whole month. Things were so bad that Vietcos director, Mr. Phung Minh Bao, had to publicise the incident on VietNamNet and ask legal authorities to help or the company would go bankrupt. Though the culprits of the two DDoS attacks were quickly discovered and caught, in September 2006, PeaceSofts e-commerce website chodientu.com became the victim of another DDos attack.