Yeah that might be for those ppl that get the Bot comments and auto-fills on forms.  Ours has to do with product grabbing and making actual orders. Thanks though for chatting.  Appreciate it!

I haven't googled the IP but Shopify shows IP's and one we checked was 2000 miles away lol. Yeah the inventory gets immediately pulled out of stock and added to cart and then ordered.  It happened in under 2 minutes today and we had to manually cance...

Yeah we're getting hit at check out. Not so much with the indexing issue. But thanks for the comment.

We're bemoaning the bots too. It's a disaster. We've had to shut down several product releases due to getting hit by bots and them cleaning out all our inventory in under a minute. Real customers now have to email us and then we send a separate purch...

We've been hit hard by bots too. It's really unfortunate Shopify won't offer better protection from this attack unless you go Shopify Plus, which is only viable for larger businesses.  Hopefully someone at Shopify will have pity in the small business...