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

Oh I might be too late, he's Jeffery now isn't he?

yeah, he's Jeffrey.

Maybe he's trying a sudocreme mask to calm his zits, Sparkling?

Typical! I'm late for the fun! Again!

You're all a bunch of atrocious cunts.

I've been hacked, obv

What is a saveloy? I've always wondered.

A rather suspicious looking sausage, Hearts.

I've started something now

Btw Mnhq, I know a good penitration testing/IT security team if you want (they .Will charge)

. Saveloy

Can someone sum up the thread where Threats Were Made? I cba to read the whole thing just to discover that the interesting posts have been long since deleted

So wrong it's right

'Penetration testing'. Fnar.

Oh yeah its all fun and games now but you weren't here man, you weren't here. Helen was swearing like a sailor and said faggot , wannaBe mocked them and and then turned and taunted us.

There was an POST EDIT FUNCTION and he MOCKED us with it.

Nothing will ever be the same

Ruining a perfectly good plate of chips, that is. Ditto curry sauce.

Beyond the Wall

Threats made on twitter of 'A big surprise'

MN start thread reporting DDOS attack. WannaBe says calm down they don't have our passwords. Jeffery takes over WannaBe's login and repeats her post and adds 'keep telling yourself that baby'

Helen comes along and say its fine don't worry. Hacker edits HER post and adds a PS calling us Fucking faggots etc etc etc

That gets deleted and then reappears as normal. Then it gets deleted and reposted with Arrrrghhh lmao

Hacker then starts editing peoples posts, Cats was one of the them. Hacker then goes pedant and starts fixing typos.

Twas all very weird and vaguely funny.

He looks so innocent too

Pantone about sums it up. With one small correction - Rebecca's post then changed to Please stop editing your posts Rebecca, mine are clearly better. which made me laugh more that it ought to.

suffolknwhat that's made my day that has

Hearts you would know a saveloy as as big wiener I think

... meant to add, that's what DP calls them

Hacker then goes pedant and starts fixing typos.

This is about the time that the hacker went native.

Hacker bins toilet brush

Hacker enters long and heated debate on P&C parking spaces

Hacker asks what the best things to pick up on his first trip to Lidl

Hacker moans about how things have changed since penis beaker

Hacker buys a scarf

What is a weiner?

I think he's disappeared because he's peering through his neighbour's window to see if they're feeding their children fruit loops and Gregg's sausage rolls.

Wonder what response he actually wanted.... Everyone laughing about it on here probably isn't the response he expected!

Curry sauce and chips...yum

I wish I could hack MN and edit posts to correct spelling & grammar. That would be so satisfying.

I would also hack NetHuns and write four-letter swear words into every post.