HACKING WARNING !!

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majordisastor
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HACKING WARNING !!

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Hi Guys,
Just to let you know that the RC Tank Regiment site was hacked into this weekend.

A lot of posts from Feb onwards appear to have been lost.

Sadly this serves as a reminder that we are all open to these forms of pointless cyber attacks.....

What I would urge you all to do is back up your detailed build posts and important contacts /info onto your home hard drive / usb stick etc in case we are unfortunate to suffer the same situation here.

If things do go belly up then at least we could recover more quickly - and without loss of infomation- whilst cutting the admin team a bit of slack at the same time.

A bit of preperation now might save us a lot of cursing later.............

Andy
It always gets darkest before it goes completley black......
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Re: HACKING WARNING !!

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I doubt anything like that would happen to us, I'm pretty tight with security on the server(so much so that even Matt doesn't have access :D), but if it ever were to happen we are prepared. We make backups daily and store these on a completely separate server.
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majordisastor
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Re: HACKING WARNING !!

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Thats very reassuring scOOby , it always pays to be one step ahead of the lowlifes......

I just like the belt and braces approach ....for my ownpeice of mind !!

Andy
It always gets darkest before it goes completley black......
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Re: HACKING WARNING !!

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majordisastor wrote:Hi Guys,
Just to let you know that the RC Tank Regiment site was hacked into this weekend.

A lot of posts from Feb onwards appear to have been lost.

Sadly this serves as a reminder that we are all open to these forms of pointless cyber attacks.....

What I would urge you all to do is back up your detailed build posts and important contacts /info onto your home hard drive / usb stick etc in case we are unfortunate to suffer the same situation here.

If things do go belly up then at least we could recover more quickly - and without loss of infomation- whilst cutting the admin team a bit of slack at the same time.

A bit of preperation now might save us a lot of cursing later.............

Andy
Ah when I tried to log on it says there are no boards and that my user name is invalid-take it the whole site is down then?
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Re: HACKING WARNING !!

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General Jumbo wrote:Ah when I tried to log on it says there are no boards and that my user name is invalid-take it the whole site is down then?
They've managed to restore from an old backup but yes that is the reason
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majordisastor
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Re: HACKING WARNING !!

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Yep, Back upand running again but we have lost a load of posts and information....

Andy
It always gets darkest before it goes completley black......
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Re: HACKING WARNING !!

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General Jumbo wrote:
majordisastor wrote:Hi Guys,
Just to let you know that the RC Tank Regiment site was hacked into this weekend.

A lot of posts from Feb onwards appear to have been lost.

Sadly this serves as a reminder that we are all open to these forms of pointless cyber attacks.....

What I would urge you all to do is back up your detailed build posts and important contacts /info onto your home hard drive / usb stick etc in case we are unfortunate to suffer the same situation here.

If things do go belly up then at least we could recover more quickly - and without loss of infomation- whilst cutting the admin team a bit of slack at the same time.

A bit of preperation now might save us a lot of cursing later.............

Andy
Ah when I tried to log on it says there are no boards and that my user name is invalid-take it the whole site is down then?
hi general jumbo unfortunatley you will need to re-register :(

Rob
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