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

Ah, I thought the gin bottle had been hit too hard and you had given yourself a timeout

Oh no Annie! That happened to lots of people when Heartbleed happened. I hope you get your name back.

"we are not allowed to use the Internet as that belongs to men with penises."

As opposed to men without penises? Although I'd have thought they'd get more use of the internet, tbh.

I know Cat! I have had that account for 9 years.

Can someone remind how to view the complete thread on one page?

click show all messages

Set messages per page is 10, 25, 50 or 100. Arrghh!

Still out, marking place again

At a friends, sneakily reading this thread

Drama!!!

I wonder if he's Butthurt Burke from the street harassment thread?

He wrote a tweet saying something about butthurt or similar

I'm still here as one of the ads showed a nice pair of trainers and I'm waiting for the fuckers to come back.

Is it me or is he deleting Twitter comments

Yes, he is deleting/has deleted tweets

Oh fuck I went for lunch and just got back - he hacked me!!!

Right what do I do? Delete my account? Or change password?

I'd contact mnhq to check, as he's editing post which is not something we can do ourselves, its obviously more complicated than them having a password to log in and post etc.

Can someone link the street harassment thread. He did tweet butthurt. Must be him...

I don't think he's got your password. I think he's just managed to sign in with developer tools and edit stuff, like change the name on a post or whatever - it's not very clever really.

I am sure they are onto it.

I dont think he has been deleting tweets, I believe the tweets that have vanished belong to a person that has put full security on their twitter account, permission is now needed to see their posts

Lets just hope he doesn't find the ban hammer or we will all disappear.

Well seeing as mn can edit our posts and they don't have all our passwords, I'd say he has given himself admin permissions...

Here.