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Ludo62	Posted: May 13 2009, 08:09 AM
Sr. Administrator Group: Administration Posts: 12,709 Member No.: 1 Joined: 24-October 04	AVSIM Hacked Wednesday, 13.05.2009 Tom Allensworth, CEO and Publisher of AVSIM, today issued the following announcement; “We regret to inform the flight simulation community that on Tuesday, May 12, AVSIM was hacked and effectively destroyed. The method of the hack makes recovery difficult, if not impossible, to recover from. Both servers, that is the library / email and web site / forum servers were attacked. AVSIM is totally offline at this time and we expect to be so for some time to come. We are not able to predict when we will be back online, if we can come back at all. We will post more news as we are able to in the coming days and weeks. Ludo -------------------- Thanks to Photobucket for free image hosting [GK-customfield]FSX[customfield-GK]

Slider94	Posted: May 14 2009, 06:22 AM
Jr. Administrator Group: Administration Posts: 7,339 Member No.: 2 Joined: 24-October 04	Well gee that sucks. Don't they have a back-up though? -------------------- [GK-customfield]Flight Simulator 2004[customfield-GK]

Posted: May 14 2009, 09:59 AM

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QUOTE (Slider94 @ May 14 2009, 06:22 AM)

Well gee that sucks. Don't they have a back-up though?

Yeah they had back-up, but the hacker got to all of them

Ludo

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Ludo62	Posted: May 14 2009, 10:47 AM
Sr. Administrator Group: Administration Posts: 12,709 Member No.: 1 Joined: 24-October 04	Made the news http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8049780.stm Ludo -------------------- Thanks to Photobucket for free image hosting [GK-customfield]FSX[customfield-GK]

TEDK	Posted: May 14 2009, 12:06 PM
Commercial Pilot Group: Members Posts: 1,009 Member No.: 293 Joined: 24-October 05	It's a crying shame that these things happen, and I hope Avsim returns with a vengence. Ted -------------------- [GK-customfield]FS9[customfield-GK]

TEDK	Posted: Oct 7 2009, 10:42 AM
Commercial Pilot Group: Members Posts: 1,009 Member No.: 293 Joined: 24-October 05	Have they fully recovered yet?????? Ted -------------------- [GK-customfield]FS9[customfield-GK]

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