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

[Toooldtobearsed]

Thank God we are back up!

Nearly hitting the gin at 11am has proved to me I have a serious MN problem.

Need to set up a support group in case this happens in the future

[tribpot]

Activia that, tragically, is by design rather than evidence of hackers. If MN could obliterate that at the same time, though, it'd be great!

[twirlypoo]

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

[HowDdo2You]

Oh I found sadsack, his poor dc.

[SusanMichelson]

He obviously thinks he is all that, but he has literally got three followers and one of them is one of us keeping an eye on him

what a wally

[GreyAndGoldInTheMeadow]

Maybe we could ask the twitter twat if he could sort that out for us tribpot

[BastardGoDarkly]

I went onto twitter, but cant fathom my way around that place

[borisgudanov]

Thank God. I can't stand being called "hun" and being banned from swearing.

[WorraLiberty]

That guy needs to get himself to the Style and Beauty topic, for some make-up tips.

He's a bit heavy on the foundation and lipstick...

[GreyAndGoldInTheMeadow]

He's claiming to have peoples passwords, seems like a precautionary password change might be in order.

[Bannerstaying]

Do we need to change passwords? So happy you're back!

[HowDdo2You]

What does that last tweet mean?

[FolknNorah]

Is this the same person asking for account details or is there another one?

[SolidGoldBrass]

Hey MNHQ can we go on Twitter and torment him a bit, or is that likely to lead to further inconvenience from the little loser?

[HowDdo2You]

Oh he took the picture down.

[MoralityPlay]

#EverydaySexism

Females can be twatty hackers too .

[twirlypoo]

I don't know which one of you is flighty on twitter, but I loves your response :D

[HowDdo2You]

Anonymous are now following him.

[SewingAndCakes]

Who is he on Twitter?

[BastardGoDarkly]

Who is he?! I can't find him on twitter

[BumWad]

These dicks:

[G1veMeStrength]

Phew.

If tingleyknob HAS got my password could he please remind me what it is as I can never remember anyway?

for MNHQ

[MissDexter]

They're doing more than a DOS attack, they've re-routed your URL to Dadsec Twitter page when trying to access the page through Google

[patrishiare]

What was the motive?