![]() ![]() ![]() It would do nobody any good to simply put up the forums the way they were and let the hackers come back and take them down again a week or two later, just as the forum patrons were getting used to having them back. Once the forums went down and we learned that it was likely a hacker attack that took them out, we realized that we wouldn’t be able to just put the forums back up the way they were, with no additional security. Worse, the people who registered since the last surviving backup–about 4,000 of them–would have to re-register. (So basically people will have to restart their conversations from scratch.) The most recent backup copy of the forums database that escaped destruction (for reasons I won’t disclose for security reasons) was from April, meaning that this was all we had to use to rebuild with, so even when the forums came up again that means all conversations underway would have to get a 5 month reset. ![]() ![]() The nature of this event is not entirely clear, but it appears that it likely was a hacker attack on the server where the forums are hosted.Īlso (apparently) destroyed were the backups of the forums that were resident there. I know this has been an enormous frustration for folks who regularly use the forums, and it has been a HUGE headache for us as well.īecause I’ve gotten a number of e-mails about the problem, I’ve been meaning to do a post about it, letting folks know when the forums would be back up, but I kept getting told that we were on the verge of having them up and I wanted the post to reflect that, but one problem after another intervened and kept pushing the date back a day or so each time, and thus this post is later than I meant it to be.Īnyway–since I know a lot of folks are wondering what happened–here’s what did: A mysterious event occurred three weeks ago that wiped out the forums. ![]()
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