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| Re: AVSIM hacked! |
Author: Steven Tan 157 Posts Status: Instructor Pilot | Date 05-13-09 22:50 | C'mon people. First Project Airbus went down and now THIS!! Everything is going down these days. 
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| Re: AVSIM hacked! |
Author: whiskey-zulu 1916 Posts Status: Forum Moderator | Date 05-14-09 01:20 | I was wondering why I couldn't get onto the file library to update my WOAI traffic; cheers for the heads-up!
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| Re: AVSIM hacked! |
Author: timtomairways Www 1351 Posts Status: Living Legend | Date 05-14-09 04:38 | this really is BS.
i checked AVsim on a daily basis.
hope they get it back up soon


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| Re: AVSIM hacked! |
Author: Jambone 1436 Posts Status: Living Legend | Date 05-14-09 23:41 | Backup server was hacked too which took them by surprise, only Ext-HDD's could've prevented it.
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| Re: AVSIM hacked! |
Author: iflyfsx 418 Posts Status: Confirmed Astronaut | Date 05-15-09 04:40 | This sucks, but that's NOT how you back up your system!
Not even a home computer.
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| Re: AVSIM hacked! |
Author: pealextf 88 Posts Status: Pilot | Date 05-15-09 17:01 |
Steven Tan wrote:
C'mon people. First Project Airbus went down and now THIS!! Everything is going down these days. 
Don't forget Microsoft ACES studios. That was the first one.
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| Re: AVSIM hacked! |
Author: relichd 410 Posts Status: Confirmed Astronaut | Date 05-15-09 17:54 |
Jambone wrote:
Backup server was hacked too which took them by surprise, only Ext-HDD's could've prevented it.
Well, I don't know. I thought the backups are being recorded onto tapes or external disk arrays, both taken/sitting off-site... 
Anyway, it's a shame this happened 
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| Re: AVSIM hacked! |
Author: 969SQN Www 197 Posts Status: Exceptional Pilot | Date 05-15-09 19:47 | hope avsim get up and running again. They didn't deserve this.
thx for putting this up, i now know what the promblem was.

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| Re: AVSIM hacked! |
Author: Jambone 1436 Posts Status: Living Legend | Date 05-15-09 20:08 |
relichd wrote:
Jambone wrote:
Backup server was hacked too which took them by surprise, only Ext-HDD's could've prevented it.
Well, I don't know. I thought the backups are being recorded onto tapes or external disk arrays, both taken/sitting off-site... 
Anyway, it's a shame this happened 
Nope, they never established that form of backup, only onto a separate server.
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Author: Thunderstorm 42 Posts Status: Student pilot | Date 05-28-09 16:47 | Oh I hope the library will be back online soon!
You don't notice how much you need it as long as it is not offline 
Greetings from germany!
Thunderstorm
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