Bad news

[garymbuska]

At the moment we are not 100% sure who or why. They are in the process of trying to find out the exact extent of the damage. Any one wanting to use the temporary forum is more than welcome. You will need to register there as user names and passwords were not transferred.
This whole thing is indeed a sad day
Gary M Buska Senior Library Manager Forum Moderator AVSIM

http://linux.myalbemarle.org/forums/ind ... 3fc5789b71

[Ang2dogs]

What gets me is either the hacker has a beef with Avsim, or this hacker used Avsim for a dry run for something else. If it's a beef, it's a shitty thing to do when it effects others ( kinda like when an arsonist burns down awhole building just to get to one person)! And if it was a practice run for something else, why not take down some of them pirate sites! or better yet hit some creditcard company severs!

[vgbaron]

Has it been determined that it was, in fact, a hack job and not some major system crash? Kind of a wierd coincidence that both servers would crash at the same time but it has happened before.

[Fly2e]

Maybe a disgruntled Ex-Aces employee...
"If I can't play then nobody can play..."  ::)

[SubZer0]

I can (to a certain extent) understand hackers going after big companies and trying to find out what really happened at Roswell and who really killed Kennedy, but to destroy a hobby website...............There has to be a lot more to this than meets the eye :-?

Matt

That's exactly what I had in mind as well... :-/ Only gives us more to worry about. I hope we and others out there such as flightsim are safe and secure from this crap

This sucks!

[MWISimmer]

Whatever has caused this.. be it a hack or a hardware/software failure, it's given everybody in the FS community a much needed kick up the **** and hopefully we can all pull together and welcome any Avsim "refugees" (for want of a better word) with the respect that we at SimV know we are best at.

[Hagar]

I can (to a certain extent) understand hackers going after big companies and trying to find out what really happened at Roswell and who really killed Kennedy, but to destroy a hobby website...............There has to be a lot more to this than meets the eye :-?

Matt

That's exactly what I had in mind as well... :-/ Only gives us more to worry about. I hope we and others out there such as flightsim are safe and secure from this crap

This sucks!

Since when did hackers or vandals need a reason for doing what they do?

The best form of defence is regular offline backups.

[NickN]

I'm still trying to figure out how such a well established site would not have private 'non accessible' backups of the entire system as well as server backup

I can understand being taken down and even a backup server being nailed if its open to connection.. I am having difficulty understanding why in this day and age a site that big would not be protected using very standard and simplistic corporate security backup practices

..unless its an inside job and even then protected backup should only have access to high admin alone

[Alejandro Rhodes]

That's exactly what I had in mind as well... :-/ Only gives us more to worry about. I hope we and others out there such as flightsim are safe and secure from this crap

This sucks!

[color=#000000][b][size=12] ABOVE ALL THIS ONE MY FRIEND!, CAREFUL PETE!

[expat]

I wonder if this is the reason??

Matt

[Moach]

maybe someone at microsoft took

[stevehookem]

Hey, it's a tough economy out there. Could it be that they just can't afford to keep the site going and this is the way to go out without looking bad?

It seems very unlikely that they would lose the backup too.

Just thinking out loud.....

[Alejandro Rhodes]

[quote]maybe someone at microsoft took

[NickN]

I wonder if this is the reason??

Matt

I'm still trying to figure out how such a well established site would not have private 'non accessible' backups of the entire system as well as server backup

I can understand being taken down and even a backup server being nailed if its open to connection.. I am having difficulty understanding why in this day and age a site that big would not be protected using very standard and simplistic corporate security backup practices

..unless its an inside job and even then protected backup should only have access to high admin alone

[The-Black-Sheep]

I wonder if this is the reason??

Matt

I'm still trying to figure out how such a well established site would not have private 'non accessible' backups of the entire system as well as server backup

I can understand being taken down and even a backup server being nailed if its open to connection.. I am having difficulty understanding why in this day and age a site that big would not be protected using very standard and simplistic corporate security backup practices

..unless its an inside job and even then protected backup should only have access to high admin alone

That was a very interesting article to say the least there Matt. Seems you're in the ball park there Nick. Freaking unbelievable to put so much trust in someone, then to screw you over aswell as a portion of the flight sim community. Think we need to keep a close eye on this one. Has really got me interested in learning as to who done this...a random hack, or an inside job.

Someone have Jack Bauer's phone number?

Alec (Yep, using my name now ...fed up of writing Black Sheep all the time)  ;D