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

Or am I wrong? Doubting myself now

It was bad last night when I couldn't get on here and was unsure what to believe on twitter. (And forced to reset my nm password from time ago). I'm unsettled and I don't like the feeling of uncertainty.

I've tweeted him a rude riposte. 5 followers? King of his own fucking damp, wankerchief-littered bedroom, more like.

Well this is all very strange isn't it?

Jumps on bandwagon - me too please baking

Anyone else noticed that the whole sit isn't back up? I still can't access Chat or AIBU so I assume its not all over...

ahh thanks! I had wondered if it was cozie but then thought she was just issuing a general warning :S

SolidGolid I started to reply but my twitter is a business account and I couldn't be arsed to set up a new one. I feel a bit sorry for him on there, its a bit like when a kid does something naughty and you ignore it so they stomp their feet a bit more to try and get your attention. Bless him with his 5 followers :D

*site, not sit

You are all a bunch of wankbadgers

#nothacked

So now I need an MN email? Ffs, I'll never remember it all. I barely remember all my passwords. Do we need separate email addresses for everything?

I missed Cozies post, what did it say?

Yes folk, in this day and age, it's sensible to do that

beyond

Did the twitter git turn trending back to most active, or was that MNHQ rolling everything back to an early backup to undo his trail of destruction ??

Anyone else trying to find sgb now to follow? Just me?

He's really cringey

Ok, cool. Will do that, but is it pointless doing it now?

I find sudocrem works a treat for any skin ailments.

Cozies post is still there on this thread, although I'm now not so sure its the work of a hacker or the work of my paranoid mind!

Chat & AIBU look ok to me..

For now, yes Folk.

However, you could be changing other passwords/email addresses in the meantime.

I'm not convinced that's a hacked comment from cozie .....

This sounds like a fantastic time to re-open the 'She Who Must Not Be Named' debate and then blame it all on hackers.

Soo - some sadsack has been trying to bring the site down? What an utterly empty life they must lead.

Have we worked out whether or not security has been compromised? I have a completely separate password for this site anyway, after the old bleedingheart situation, but I'd still like to know.