HPCA Forum is down

[panzerfaust150]

Hi all,
 For those of you familiar with the History, Politics and Current Affairs forum was taken down in a DDOS attack sometime yesterday evening. The site is home to such projects as "The Last War?" and "Red Dawn+20" which I know is popular with some here.

 The only information I have at this time is this posted in an email from Stu, the site mod:

The latest news isn't good. It appears that there was some form of DDOS attack on the forum last night between 1630 and 1730 after which the SQL file that contains the site data was hacked and destroyed. Commandante Ours Polaire who looks after the programming side of things will be trying to fix the problem and reload from the backup.

At the moment, we have no idea when the forum will be back up.


Warm regards

Stu

(I received this via Matt Wiser)

At this time, I am unsure as to when the site will be back up. Till then? Stay frosty.

[lordroel]

Mar 29, 2017 17:42:30 GMT panzerfaust150 said:

Hi all,
 For those of you familiar with the History, Politics and Current Affairs forum was taken down in a DDOS attack sometime yesterday evening. The site is home to such projects as "The Last War?" and "Red Dawn+20" which I know is popular with some here.

 The only information I have at this time is this posted in an email from Stu, the site mod:

The latest news isn't good. It appears that there was some form of DDOS attack on the forum last night between 1630 and 1730 after which the SQL file that contains the site data was hacked and destroyed. Commandante Ours Polaire who looks after the programming side of things will be trying to fix the problem and reload from the backup.

At the moment, we have no idea when the forum will be back up.


Warm regards

Stu

(I received this via Matt Wiser)

At this time, I am unsure as to when the site will be back up. Till then? Stay frosty.

Dammit, the forum is a gold mine to everything related to "The Last War?", "Red Dawn+20" and the "TBO?".

[mattwiser]

I have heard from Stu: work is underway on restoration. It may take a day or so. But work is ongoing.

[lordroel]

Mar 30, 2017 4:11:08 GMT mattwiser said:

I have heard from Stu: work is underway on restoration. It may take a day or so. But work is ongoing.

Lets hoop it comes back online soon.

[spanishspy]

Never was on that site but nevertheless I wish them a speedy recovery.

[lordroel]

Apr 7, 2017 2:53:57 GMT spanishspy said:

Never was on that site but nevertheless I wish them a speedy recovery.

They have recovered and are back online.

[spanishspy]

Apr 7, 2017 4:50:55 GMT lordroel said:

Apr 7, 2017 2:53:57 GMT spanishspy said:

Never was on that site but nevertheless I wish them a speedy recovery.

They have recovered and are back online.

Good to hear.