Timm Posted May 13, 2009 Posted May 13, 2009 (edited) Hi Guys, Just thought I would post this up if you are not aware. Tom Allensworth, CEO and Publisher of AVSIM, today issued the following announcement; “We regret to inform the flight simulation community that on Tuesday, May 12, AVSIM was hacked and effectively destroyed. The method of the hack makes recovery difficult, if not impossible, to recover from. Both servers, that is the library / email and web site / forum servers were attacked. AVSIM is totally offline at this time and we expect to be so for some time to come. We are not able to predict when we will be back online, if we can come back at all. We will post more news as we are able to in the coming days and weeks. END Very Very Sad. Timm Edited May 13, 2009 by Timm “Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. It comes to us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.” John Wayne
Acedy Posted May 13, 2009 Posted May 13, 2009 Sad news, hope they will find the bastard(s) and get the site back up quickly. AVSIM is a great site. :mad: [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] *** SERVMAN SERVER MANAGEMENT MOD V2 FOR DCS:BS V1.0.1 *** *** VERSION FOR FC2 ***
OldCrow Posted May 13, 2009 Posted May 13, 2009 That is thruly sad news:( The idea that someone enjoys destroying sites like this makes me sick. What can they possible get out of it other then pissing off alot of people? I really hope they can make the site up and running again [sIGPIC]http://www.virtualredarrows.com/member_sigs/vra2012_crow.png[/sIGPIC]
Boberro Posted May 13, 2009 Posted May 13, 2009 Damn shiiit :mad: Great site, I found there TileProxy, very helpful.... Reminder: Fighter pilots make movies. Bomber pilots make... HISTORY! :D | Also to be remembered: FRENCH TANKS HAVE ONE GEAR FORWARD AND FIVE BACKWARD :D ಠ_ಠ ツ
Sulman Posted May 13, 2009 Posted May 13, 2009 Around the time of a planned outage? Strange. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
VMFA117_Poko Posted May 13, 2009 Posted May 13, 2009 Very sad... :angry: Such a big database and all mods have gone... I wish those hackers go bald quickly.
ED Team f-18hornet Posted May 13, 2009 ED Team Posted May 13, 2009 Who the hell wanted to hack the AVSIM site??! They must be *****ng *ssholes!!:gun_sniper::gun_rifle::chair: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X, GeForce RTX 2080Ti, 32 GB DRAM, HOTAS TM Warthog, FSSB R3 Lighting, MFG Crosswind, Win 10 Pro
GGTharos Posted May 13, 2009 Posted May 13, 2009 Sad, but that's what happens when you don't have a backup in place :P [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Reminder: SAM = Speed Bump :D I used to play flight sims like you, but then I took a slammer to the knee - Yoda
EtherealN Posted May 13, 2009 Posted May 13, 2009 (edited) What can they possible get out of it other then pissing off alot of people? When they turn professional, they can show it off (with evidence that it was indeed them) as an example of their skill. So what they get out of it, potentially is a quicker entry into a very lucrative niche black market - contract cracking. However, it can also be some jackass that just find it fun to be a bitch. Or someone that had a feud for whatever reason. EDIT: Another possibility is that they will soon ransom AVSIM for the data, if they were able to copy it before the strike. Which is why one should always have backups - and preferably backups that on a daily or weekly bases get shifted to a completely offline storage. --- All of that aside; this bloody sucks. :( Edited May 13, 2009 by EtherealN Another possibility struck me [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Daniel "EtherealN" Agorander | Даниэль "эфирныйн" Агорандер Intel i7 2600K @ 4.4GHz, ASUS Sabertooth P67, 8GB Corsair Vengeance @ 1600MHz, ASUS GTX 560Ti DirectCU II 1GB, Samsung 830series 512GB SSD, Corsair AX850w, two BENQ screens and TM HOTAS Warthog DCS: A-10C Warthog FAQ | DCS: P-51D FAQ | Remember to read the Forum Rules | | | Life of a Game Tester
Shaman Posted May 13, 2009 Posted May 13, 2009 Terrible news. I have been using AVSIM since I don't know when. Honestly, the CEO of this site should have known what is comming. This page was so technologically outdated that it was open to attacks. Questions was only when, I am surprised it happened so late. Only he can do now, is to call the police and have the investigation running. 51PVO Founding member (DEC2007-) 100KIAP Founding member (DEC2018-) :: Shaman aka [100☭] Shamansky tail# 44 or 444 [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] 100KIAP Regiment Early Warning & Control officer
JG14_Smil Posted May 13, 2009 Posted May 13, 2009 first, the loss of Frugal's website, then this... lot of info lost.
-fox- Posted May 13, 2009 Posted May 13, 2009 I always wonder why admins don't make more backups. That should be pretty much the most important rule for anybody working with anything in IT - especially when it's something online.
Vekkinho Posted May 13, 2009 Posted May 13, 2009 ...I'm very shocked...I can't imagine someone doing this for fun, it's like scratching paintwork on your car that's done in envy which might be the case here too! [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
EvilBivol-1 Posted May 13, 2009 Posted May 13, 2009 Stupid and sad. - EB [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Nothing is easy. Everything takes much longer. The Parable of Jane's A-10 Forum Rules
th3flyboy Posted May 13, 2009 Posted May 13, 2009 This is the most stupid incident I've seen. The worst part is the stuff detailed here: http://linux.myalbemarle.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=41&st=0&sk=t&sd=a It appears that things went down that shouldn't have. The worst part about the backups is the backups were done on the servers, each server was a backup of the other servers. Current Sims: DCS Black Shark, Falcon 4.0, X-Plane 9, Steel Beasts Pro PE, IL-2 1946, ArmA 2, FSX, Rise of Flight, EECH, Harpoon 3 ANW, CSP
leafer Posted May 16, 2009 Posted May 16, 2009 The owner of the site said that it was an inside job; a web master he hired. Basically, he caught the guy harvesting members' email addresses and started spamming them. Then when he was asked to look into the spamming, he took down the site. Sigh... ED have been taking my money since 1995. :P
Boberro Posted May 16, 2009 Posted May 16, 2009 Oo Reminder: Fighter pilots make movies. Bomber pilots make... HISTORY! :D | Also to be remembered: FRENCH TANKS HAVE ONE GEAR FORWARD AND FIVE BACKWARD :D ಠ_ಠ ツ
BaD CrC Posted May 16, 2009 Posted May 16, 2009 AVSIM has been online for 12 years I think with up to 60000 members. I can't believe everything is gone just like this. This is too sad to see such a tremendous database destroyed. https://www.blacksharkden.com http://discord.gg/blacksharkden
HansRoaming Posted May 16, 2009 Posted May 16, 2009 Ouch, well the new admin who harvested all those emails sure has the finger pointed at him as the site went down just after he was fired.......
Reticuli Posted May 17, 2009 Posted May 17, 2009 This sucks. I just made a donation to help out. But I've also had my own problems for the last 5 days. One PC got a virus and another just spontaneously shutoff permanently. It's been years since I've had issues like that. Finally got a new partition up yesterday. Suggestions on where I can put my profiles and scripts? X65 and X52, Glide, Winx3D, and GlovePIE Profiles http://library.avsim.net/search.php?SearchTerm=reticuli&CatID=miscmisc http://library.avsim.net/register.php X52 + Silicone Grease = JOY stick
crazysundog Posted May 17, 2009 Posted May 17, 2009 I use mediafire.com, although i dont know how 'permanent' they are!
th3flyboy Posted May 26, 2009 Posted May 26, 2009 the forums are back up! The rest of the site should be back up soon in other words the word of avsim's death has been greatly exaggerated! Oh, anyone who wonders, theres plenty of info on how it went back up here: http://linux.myalbemarle.org/forums/ Current Sims: DCS Black Shark, Falcon 4.0, X-Plane 9, Steel Beasts Pro PE, IL-2 1946, ArmA 2, FSX, Rise of Flight, EECH, Harpoon 3 ANW, CSP
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