AVsimproblems

[wijnand]

Guys,

have a look at this thread:

http://forum.ivao.aero/index.php?topic=110215.0

This is the text from Tom Allensworth:
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"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."

Some people obviously don't have better things to do
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It seems that Avsim hired a guy who eventually effectively destroyed their library. Files gone, forums gone.
I hope that they will recover.

Take care,

Wijnand

[Jim L]

That's very bad (and sad) news. Luckily for us FS users, there is still flightsim.com

Cheers

[Brogs]

I just fail to understand these people !why the hell would you want to do something like that?

[1691]

Apparently they know who did it, and it was done from the inside. A recently hired IT director from the UK is under investigation. This even made the BBC:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8049780.stm

[PKlijnstra]

Unbelieveble

[esurfman]

Sad sad day for all....To the guy who did it I have only one question...what did you gain by doing this? Your 15 minutes of glory??? Sad.

[khelm]

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You can get it here here


This is utterly shocking. I feel a part of me has died.

[nwadc10]

Tomas, I'm watching you!

But seriously, this is very sad and frustrating news. I will draft a letter to be sent to Tom on behalf of all of us at GC.