My theory (almost fact) regarding the 48 Hour YCM Blackout.

[J-Max]

FD, please do not lock this as I am about 98% certain of why YCM blacked out for 48 Hours.

I frequent 2 well known Piracy forums and recently they lost almost thier whole Database due to a Hack by a unknown party.

These Forums use IP Board. Unluckily for the 2 sites they had no backup server. Something tells me that YCM may have shared the same fate. Luckily this Forum had a backup. YCMaker, may I suggest double checking all Security and perhaps backing up the Server again.

[Βyakuya]

So some unknown forums were hacked from them, including us, and we had backup to negate that?

Further explain?

[J-Max]

YCMaker mentioned a while back that he has a extra server. Also the 2 other Forums are VERY well known.

[Ice.]

Why would the hackers go from a very well known forum to YCM?


Ehh, it's possible though.

[Βyakuya]

[quote name='Ice' timestamp='1284049702' post='4611180']
Why would the hackers go from a very well known forum to YCM?


Ehh, it's possible though.
[/quote]

Jealousy I guess?

[J-Max]

200K+ members would be a huge trophy for any hacker.

[LiAM]

It's interesting. Gaia or World of Warcraft forums would be an ultimate goal though.

YCM may have been victim to such a hacker,[i] though I doubt anyone would
find a benefit in actually hacking anything in the first place?[/i]

It's seems odd that someone would do this, but a server down because of a hacker?
It could just have been faults with the IP boards, maybe it had a bug,
crashed, overloaded or just went through a repairing phase.

Not too sure, it wasn't a big deal the server went, but if the forum [u]is[/u] in danger of hackers,
then the Forum might need safety features implemented, especially since members may
use the same password for multiple accounts such as: hotmail, yahoo or social sites.

[Ice.]

Ehh, true.

Well, if we did get attacked by hackers we must have some bad luck.

[Cin]

[quote name='YCMaker' timestamp='1284052281' post='4611279']
It's was due to a fault in the cloud hosting storage servers, took Gigenet a while to remedy the issue. Nothing I could do but wait for them to fix it.
[/quote]

There is the official answer.

[JG.]

Sounds plausible.