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Ezboard forum isn't the best software out there, which this attack so clearly proved. I ran one once, and that was enough. I feel sorry for those people who lost hundreds, if not thousands, of posts. But honestly, if their forums were that important they would have found a better solution.

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Nimue: Yes. Really.

 

Payal: Basically last week a hacker tried to bring the Ezboard company to its knees. And did a rather good job.

 

Sometime on the 31st of May' date=' they were apparently hacked, and the majority of boards lost all of their data. There is some sketchy information being bandied about by the company about all of their backups being erased by this hacker, and there is a significant concern about their ability to restore information.

 

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The whole situation is really quite bizarre, and if the company isn't able to restore the missing data, I don't see them surviving financially. Paid boards pay for the promise of weekly backup, and it seems odd that the company is running into so much difficulty with the restoration. These difficulties would certainly lend credence to the suggestion that ezboard did not, in fact, back up the data in an offsite location, which in turn means they made false promises to paying customers. The legal and financial ramifications seem stupendous to me, should this be the case.

 

As sad as the whole situation is, reading through their support forums is really quite entertaining. On the one hand are the gold members, who quite rightly, are less than thrilled that a product they've paid for has proven so defective, and on the other hand are those people praising the company for all of their work and "restoration" efforts. (I use quotations because no boards have actually been restored.) There are plenty of conspiracy theories abounding, about the hacker being an insider, or the company blaming some sort of a technical glitch on a so-called hacker. There is also speculation that the hacker was the recently departed founder of the company, who is said to have been pushed out of the company. Then you have the non-paying customers getting indignant because the company has only alluded to the repair efforts they're making towards the paying customers, because, well, the company trying to cover it's own legal and financial ass is clearly, y'know, an indication on its part that the content of non-paying boards is inferior. [/quote']

 

 

Free boards are s*** out of luck.

 

The lesson? Take your forum in-house.

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