It doesn't look like a DDoS to me. Folks don't seen to have trouble accessing the site, they just can't log into their accounts. It looks more like someone deleted the user database, or crucial login information.
Reports I'm seeing are that the site is not recognizing login e-mails or passwords, which looks like a login database got zapped.
For members who have created new accounts, are you still able to see the old accounts, or are they "missing" and if they were banned? You know - missing avatar and stars, just a tilde where the stars used to be? I've not made a new account, and likely won't. My account there was 15 years old, but I've not used it much in about forever, can't see a reason to create a new one since I pretty much stopped using the old one.
Might have been someone just trying to eliminate the "Old Guard" or "Elder Statesman" hierarchy there, and put everyone onto pretty much the same chronological footing, or it might have been attackers looking for ransom, holding the login database hostage. Another possibility is that someone got the red-ass at the mods, and took them down with a nuke that destroyed their login info, and everyone else just got caught in the crossfire.
In any event, at least it's not down this time, so for folks that want to interact there, they still can by making brand new infant accounts. So, probably not a DDoS, because that would hamper access to the site period.
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Reports I'm seeing are that the site is not recognizing login e-mails or passwords, which looks like a login database got zapped.
For members who have created new accounts, are you still able to see the old accounts, or are they "missing" and if they were banned? You know - missing avatar and stars, just a tilde where the stars used to be? I've not made a new account, and likely won't. My account there was 15 years old, but I've not used it much in about forever, can't see a reason to create a new one since I pretty much stopped using the old one.
Might have been someone just trying to eliminate the "Old Guard" or "Elder Statesman" hierarchy there, and put everyone onto pretty much the same chronological footing, or it might have been attackers looking for ransom, holding the login database hostage. Another possibility is that someone got the red-ass at the mods, and took them down with a nuke that destroyed their login info, and everyone else just got caught in the crossfire.
In any event, at least it's not down this time, so for folks that want to interact there, they still can by making brand new infant accounts. So, probably not a DDoS, because that would hamper access to the site period.
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