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| Awesumus Pwntius |
 May 13 2009, 12:31 AM
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Did a search and didn't see anything, figured I d post this...
Folks, Today, AVSIM was destroyed by a hacker. Both of our primary servers were hacked and the partition tables destroyed, and that will be very difficult to overcome. I won't speculate on who did it, but we will have a forensic done on our disks and scrutinize the logs to validate our suspicions. I would appreciate if you could post the following as a news item or announcement on your websites or forums. Nels and Francois, I know we have been competitors, but I would very much appreciate you posting this on your web sites, if you could. PRESS RELEASE: AVSIM Hacked!! 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 Best Regards, Tom Allensworth |
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| Cortez |
May 13 2009, 12:33 AM
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Holy piss, who the
 would do such a thing?!Thats low man. |
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| Dr...Watson |
May 13 2009, 12:33 AM
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Shocking news
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| mhockey21 |
May 13 2009, 12:35 AM
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I heard that they might be done because of this
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| flyhalf |
May 13 2009, 02:44 AM
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Man, there's some scum out there.
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| Kosta |
May 13 2009, 02:52 AM
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I call that the lowest scum that crawls on this planet.
Why destroy a FREE community which only serves everyone??? bitchez... sry.
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| BA-Baracus |
May 13 2009, 03:20 AM
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This is
traginc, why would someone do such a thing to a great FREE resource. And, i read on the forums like many others probably, that this might be the end of AVSIM I hope to god tomcontinues, and good luck to them finding this mother
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| flyhalf |
May 13 2009, 03:21 AM
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Think about how many companies this affects - PMDG and FS2Crew being two of them. Now they have no way of offering support.
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| padsquad43 |
May 13 2009, 03:25 AM
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Will this cause a serious depression amongst the FS world? Many depend on AVSIM for hosting and stuff like that.
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| dolbinau |
May 13 2009, 03:25 AM
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QUOTE(flyhalf @ May 13 2009, 06:21 PM)  Think about how many companies this affects - PMDG and FS2Crew being two of them. Now they have no way of offering support. Well it's alright for them, they can just open-shop somewhere else (worked for PMDG when the 747 was released). I'm most concerned about the File library and archive of news/reviews etc... It's kind of like flight simulator 'history' has been lost :-/.. |
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| TheAviationWolf |
May 13 2009, 03:59 AM
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I believe the phrase ryhms with, "clucking bell". I know there are other freeware site though none are as good as AVSIM. The support was top notch on there, why does some failiure in life have to do this?
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| jakepope |
May 13 2009, 04:19 AM
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Mother
piece of AVSIM is great , why do something like that? JAP |
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| pulluporcrash |
May 13 2009, 04:24 AM
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QUOTE(flyhalf @ May 13 2009, 04:21 AM) Think about how many companies this affects - PMDG and FS2Crew being two of them. Now they have no way of offering support. This affects so much and so many people it's almost incomprehensable. The fact that a freeware based website was attacked is pretty low 
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| wynthorpe |
May 13 2009, 04:31 AM
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Backups?! Surely they have backups of all data made on a daily basis? i know i would do.
Shame this has happened though, not good at all!
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| Captain Quagmire |
May 13 2009, 04:43 AM
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Some real
in this world, what were they going to get out of this?
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| MatthewDavies |
May 13 2009, 04:49 AM
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idiots.... Why would someone do that? Obviously AVSIM isn't as secure as we all think! I think, maybe someone else should start up a FS File uploading site, similar to what AVSIM was? If i have any time later on, I'll get round to it. |
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| 727pilot |
May 13 2009, 04:55 AM
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idiots indeed!!!!
Anyway let's hope for better! I'm sure they have at least some backup. What can I say..... Wish them speedy recovery. |
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| Chief NWA |
May 13 2009, 04:58 AM
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Oh no!
 This is really bad and I hope they find that stupid mother who did this!  I hope we didn't lose all the files! |
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| majesticair |
May 13 2009, 05:21 AM
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This is shocking, I cant believe someone would do such a thing. Btw FlightSim.com has about 90% of the files you can find on AVSIM so you could use that for now. But it truly is pety.
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| ppgstf |
May 13 2009, 05:56 AM
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CODE I heard that they might be done because of this Did you mean done for or are you suggesting that there is a strong reason why the hacker did this? |
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