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

It Twatty McDickface still waving his cock about, or is there a problem with the log in code?

Testing

I've changed my password just in case and checked the box to stay logged in but it logged me out anyway.

I can't read through 700+ posts

someone tell me who Jeffrey is please

I'm Jeffrey and so's my wife

He's the little souvenir of a terrible year!
If you read the first page you'll get the low down. He was the hacker.

Now, thanks to effing Jeffrey I've lost the Christmas thread. It disappeared while I had to log back in
Anyone know where it went? I did a search but there are a bazillion of the buggers (yes yes I know it is August) and I need to offload what is in my C&P cache before I shut down and loose it all.

Effing Jeffrey

Zing
Some hacked and apparently altered posts.
All got confusing for a bit.
All normal now.
In future, if you need to give the top secrets of mn, add to the list of prom ears etc, Jeffrey.
That is the nn given to yon hacker.

Get back to yer kids. It were mumsnet history and you weren't there.

:)

Thanks for explaining, I couldn't log on for ages!

or maybe it wasn't Jeffrey, but Brian from Hull, getting revenge for "my Yoni says no (ni)"

Been logged out and old password not accepted. Then new password not accepted. Then logged in

I had this for hours too

Glad I missed all this then! Got back just now from the day out and discovered I was logged out, but my password got me logged straight back in, so that's one bonus.

Soooooo - do I need to change it again or has Jeffrey been "dealt with" effectively enough?

Has anyone told Jeffrey's mum about all this? She needs to bring him into line. No Coco Pops for him this morning. And no X-box all week.

Jeffrey has been grounded for the rest of holidays and the WiFi password changed.

I've lost my MN password now. I liked that password.

What's wrong with people??

Now that's a dangerous question to ask on Mumsnet Saggy,

I think I saw Jeffrey in M&S this morning. Being dragged trouser shopping by his mum

"Well, this has livened up my day. Nearly as much fun as watching my FIL picking blackberries in his pyjamas."

I have flicked through read the whole thread and no-one has asked the really important question - why does sunnydayinmay's FIL keep blackberries in his pyjamas??

Hmmmmm - things still ain't quite right, I got logged out again! no problem logging back in, but I shouldn't randomly be logged out, especially as I have the box ticked to keep me logged in.

So still no word on the deal with need/no need to change passwords?

Does anyone else misread these threads as 'Planned Site OutRage'? Seems quite appropriate.

I'm being randomly logged out as well.

Search facility isn't working for me today - I just get 'Something Went Wrong'. Anyone else noticed this?

I wondered what was going on, logged in now on 3rd attempt.

Jeffrey needs some time out.

I think Jeffrey used the last of my sage. Annoying bastard. I found some more, so it's not terrible. Just a bit annoying because I no longer have the little pit to put it in. Also, I keep getting logged out.

• pot.

Jeff, be a love and sort out the typo would you?

Lemon - omg, he's had my nutmeg too!
Had to put mixed spice in my moussaka. The bastard.

Why do I keep getting logged out?