Ezboard Disaster

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Ezboard Disaster

Postby Bud on 20 Jun 2005, 03:38

Did you hear about Ezboard being the victim of a malicious hacker? There was apparently a lot of permanent loss of data.

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=u ... earch+News

It appears that the threads on our old board may have been a casualty. Its unfortunate that so much of the content from DK fan boards over the past five years or so, from Paul Nish on, are now in bit heaven :cry:

http://pub120.ezboard.com/bthejazzprincessdianakrall
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Postby Eric in Long Beach on 21 Jun 2005, 08:21

Yes, I was aware of the hack because there are a couple ezboards that I frequent. The thought is that is was an inside job because it's effect was so pervasive. Some sites lost money out of their community chests.

Ez supporters are very angry, and Ezboard is still trying to recover.
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Postby Bud on 22 Jun 2005, 00:14

Its pretty bad. I administer a couple of Ezboards for a couple of organizations I'm involved with. Not very busy boards - they're mainly limited to use for members.

I seem to have lost everything back to about April 2004. Before that things appear to still be there, but I haven't done any kind of exhaustive evaluation yet.

This kind of event could kill Ezboard, unless they happened to be ensured for something like this...
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Postby Coda on 22 Jun 2005, 16:13

Sad to lose a lot of the old posts. They were very newsy.
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Postby wush on 22 Jun 2005, 17:54

This is very bad.

I'm actually quite surprised that they are not able to fully restore all the boards. Surely they have a disaster recovery plan and regularly do test runs... But I guess not.

Technology companies has gone out of business for much less than that....
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