Russian Rhapsody?

For the past two days the Pajamas Media site has been experiencing constant connection problems with the server and peculiar problems with the commenting feature. At one time on The Belmont Club the server was loading the name and email address of other users into the boxes provided. The email is supposed to be confidential so this is a security breach. While that problem is not still happening it is still dropping connections and deleting the content of the user ID boxes after every submission or reload.

Is this a virus? A DDoS attack? A hack to collect site users email addresses? Could it be Gremlins from the Kremlin?