23rd May 2012 - Status Update

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    We are continuing to work very hard to recover from the events of the past few days. To start with, here's a recap of the timeline of events: Monday 21st > Alarm raised about breach of primary server > Access regained to server, security audit performed, and website restored from backup > Independant company also asked to perform security audit of primary server > DDOS Attack starts Tuesday 22nd > DDOS attack to main server continues throughout the day causing intermittent access issues Wednesday 23rd > DDOS attack to main server continues > DDOS Attack starts towards forum > Forums are attacked - posts edited. vBulletin used as a point of entry. The forums, the documentation, and the blog are all hosted on a different server, entirely separate from our primary server. So this poses no new risk to our main client database. This issue is ongoing. Unfortunately credit card details were taken, and we do urge any clients who feel their credit card...