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9000 forums virtually wiped out
Topic Started: Jun 4 2005, 06:40 PM (2,433 Views)
biagrin
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Ezboard systems touted as the "largest online community network site on the planet", was virtually brought to its knees Tuesday as the result of "a very precise and malicious internet attack resulting in the loss of a significant amount of current and historical board postings and interrupted services across all systems", according to Ezboards' CEO, Robert Labatt's message to Ezboard members.

Tuesday's attack caused denial of service errors throughout the system and affected millions of users across approximately 9,000 message boards. The attack resulted in massive data loss, both current and historical from message boards within the system. Many Boards also lost accumulated monetary funds stored within their communities that is used toward Board subscription services.


http://www.halifaxlive.com/artman/publish/...0605_7762.shtml
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Seth
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Good thing IF is more secure :ermm: I would hate to be one of those 9,000.
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Ej
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Ouch.....
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Stephen
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Oh wow. Those poor board owners. All those posts. I'm so sick of these idiots wasting their time attacking websites. These people need lives.
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Aaron
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A blast from the past.

ouch. Poor poeple. more people for IF now.
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Sirin
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Umm... I think this would be a VERY good time to check ALL security on IF. Remember: Everything connected to the internet is capable of being hacked, even InvisionFree. This could be a taste of what might happen to US. :unsure:
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Francis
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Yeah, there was that guy asking about IF as his Ezboard had got closed...

Why do people feel the need to do things like this? :/
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Seth
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Sirin
June 4, 2005 06:28 PM
Umm... I think this would be a VERY good time to check ALL security on IF. Remember: Everything connected to the internet is capable of being hacked, even InvisionFree. This could be a taste of what might happen to US. :unsure:

Nah, it's okay. We don't use Avant.

:r

It's terrible for ezBoard; they have been on the decline for awhile but this is going to kill business. They are the oldest of the free board providers, which is why they are the biggest. Hopefully ezBoard can recover the data for the people that lost their boards.
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Aaron
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A blast from the past.

Seth
June 4, 2005 07:02 PM
Sirin
June 4, 2005 06:28 PM
Umm... I think this would be a VERY good time to check ALL security on IF. Remember: Everything connected to the internet is capable of being hacked, even InvisionFree. This could be a taste of what might happen to US. :unsure:

Nah, it's okay. We don't use Avant.

:r


:lol: :rofl:

Man that stinks for the users.
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Zeal-ZNS
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<_< Yea, I remember the first forum I had was on EzBoard..I thought it was awesome..But it barely had anything you could change....Either that or I had no idea how to work it...
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Wow, I remember I was planning on going to Ezboard before I came here. :blink: Glad I didn't now. :lol:
Shame though, such a malicious attack and so uncalled for. :/ I hope they recover too, didn't realise they were the oldest of online communities so this must be such a blow to them. :(
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Captain Kam
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D: I used ezBoard before I came to Invision Power Board and eventually IF. T'was like a startingpoint for me forumwise.

*Dark Kam hopes they recover also.
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Sirin
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Seth
June 4, 2005 07:02 PM
Nah, it's okay. We don't use Avant.

:r


Why you little-- :@
Little did you know that Avant has well over 120 Million users, so yes, some of you do. :P
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Seth
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Sirin
June 4, 2005 08:16 PM
Seth
June 4, 2005 07:02 PM
Nah, it's okay. We don't use Avant.

:r


Why you little-- :@
Little did you know that Avant has well over 120 Million users, so yes, some of you do. :P

Calm calm, it was a joke.

*offers cookie*
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Rory
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Sirin
June 5, 2005 02:16 AM
Seth
June 4, 2005 07:02 PM
Nah, it's okay. We don't use Avant.

:r


Why you little-- :@
Little did you know that Avant has well over 120 Million users, so yes, some of you do. :P

is the 120 million including the IE users that avant is based on?
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