Site outage update

[RebeccaMumsnet]

Hi everyone,

First and foremost: sorry for the loss of usual service over the last few hours.

To explain what's been going on: shortly after 10pm last night, we started receiving a large amount of spurious (i.e. automatic, rather than human) traffic. This is known in the trade as a denial of service attack: one in which a person, or organisation, deliberately floods a website with requests for pages, with the intention of overwhelming its servers and preventing bona fide users from accessing the site.

It goes without saying that we're doing everything we can to repel borders and keep the site up and running. We'll post on our social channels with any further updates (we're over here on Facebook and Twitter, if you don't follow us already), and in the meantime, thanks, as usual, for bearing with us.

MNHQ

Phew, I was beginning to get worried!
I actually had to read a book in bed last night
Well done for repelling those bastards

That knob on twitter is implying he has so much data in his hands, is that just talk or could they have gained some info?

I wonder what information they wanted?

Thanks for the update. Is it likely to happen again? I need to make plans to avoid further enforced RL interaction

Was there a breach of user data?

I thought it was me breaking it and had to eat a whole packet of M and S Belgian chocolate cookies.

Hope you get it sorted soon!

Do you need us to suit up?

I've a baseball bat. Happy to stand guard somewhere

I had to make a decision for myself last night without random strangers opinions...it was very stressful.

You've been hacked. If you click on search it goes somewhere else...

Ouch I thought It was only criminal gangs that carried out DDOS attacks to blackmail companies? They aren't trying to blackmail mnhq are they?

After bleeding heart, I set a new email and password on various sites.

Phew, the essentials are working!

Well I hope he makes his mother proud.

The site being down made me realise that I have a serious MN addiction

That guys twitter page is a bit sinister.... I don't understand why they can be bothered though? Was there nothing on tv last night? Did their xbox break?

Search appears normal from here

Search is okay for me, sure you didn't accidentally click an ad schmalex?

Thanks Rebecca. I trust that you've laid in large stores of gin for Tech? It sounds as if they might need it.

He did it if he did indeed do it because women having space on the internet is anathema to a certain sort of men.

MNHQ, can you confirm or deny the data mining allegations please? I need to take steps to secure borders if they have.

Should we be changing Passwords?

I think he did it because it made his penis go all tingly, that and he's a twat.

Also MNHQ every thread I post on is being added to my "Watch List" without me requesting it,

That is a new this that MNHQ added a few days ago Activia

The mumsnet twitter is the one that redirects if you google I think, not the main website.