Woo hoo!! We're in the money again!!!!

[alltatup]

NebulaHazeSiriusFourside Thank you for working so hard to get us back up and running!!! You deserve a long vacation.

 

[9fingerleafs]

yeah, and im sure all of us are interested to know what happened?

 

[s62]

So glad the forum is back!!! I’ve been checking like a maniac every hour or so lol. I’ve got lots of posting to do!

 

[duckman]

YAY!!!!!!!

 

[alltatup]

Me too!! I missed my buddies.

 

[SiriusFourside]

Glad to be back! I can elaborate more if anyone is interested, but here's the short version of what happened:

Some less-than-nice person killed the server. No information was taken. In fact, they never even tried to get the database. Instead, they used our server (in combination with many others) to shut down another poor website by flooding it with requests for info (also known as a DDOS). The vulnerability has been patched so we're good now! 👍

 

[Farmbuck]

Good work !! Hope our infos is still secure !!

 

[alltatup]

That's really sad.

 

[Mr.furley]

Thanks for all you do NebulaHaze and SiriusFourside and the behind the scene people. You Rock!

 

[Tersky]

Yeah i was thinking it was a DDOS because of the "Refuse to connect" error i was getting. (Former IT guy here) Well glad things are working now! When it first happened i thought i had just smoked too much and had kicked out the ethernet cable! XD

 

[homegrown]

Amazing work, and thanks for keeping us updated..! i may have beat the hell out of your server, just cause i was checking so many times a day... hahahaha. Thanks Nebula and Sirius Fourside! And hello everyone!!

 

[SoOrbudgal]

Yippeee so glad we have such amazing Administrators Thank You both for your diligence on hunting down the issue. I become rather attached to this forum :wink:

 

[9fingerleafs]

im glad were good to go, thank you both for everything

 

[Farmall]

Well for sure I too applaud you’re energies and efforts... on the other hand...Paranoia in my head turns out to be extremely activated by events like this in some activities I do so I was ready to burn up my computer iPad and phone.... glad to see your so on top of it

 

[alltatup]

I agree. It's scarey and sad to think of someone setting out to sabotage this forum.

 

[GardenLady]

I really don't understand what happened..but I am certainly glad we are up and running again.I was getting worried I wouldn't be able to get any more help ..
thank you Nebula and Sirius for getting the forun back online. I missed reading and learning and just talking. Lol..everyone here is pretty awesome 😃😃😃

 

[starramus]

"less-than-nice person" does that equate with motherfucker?

Some hackers are OK by me. Constructive hacking such as Assange, and Wkileaks do.