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

Poor old Bruce is being dragged into this now Higher than a seven?

Well WannaBe and I now have freedomg to go and be rude on any board we fancy. For a time at least. Or until Olivia catches up with us.

It feels quite liberating.

Oy hacker, MN has is own winky face emoticons are so 1990

Please stop editing your posts Rebecca, mine are clearly better.

Oh dadsec, I think you mean 'How could I have been hacked'

Ok then....you've convinced me with your well thought out argument. Who can disagree that clearly we all hate men now that Bruce has retired. It all makes perfect sense

Aibu to think this guy needs a nice hobby?

Now Bruce is free, he could take up a bit of tap dancing.

thats not nice

DurhamDurham, that wasn't a hacked post, that was me being sarcastic. I don't think Bruce's retirement was part of the feminist plot to take over the world. Otherwise why would Donald Trump still be allowed out in public?

Am I being stupid? I must be - the 'update on Rebecca's post.

Am I going mad? Did anyone else just see that?

Nope I saw it!

Yes. I did.

Clearly this person is accessing people's accounts.

I think mn should tell us what's happening.

IT'S GONE!

It was there, honestly - someone else tell me they saw it too!

Wasn't there a weird update on Rebecca mumsnets post initially or am I seeing things?

Saw what?

Yep, that update ... no sign of humble secrecy to prove an esoteric point, is there?

What happened to the 'UPDATE' on Rebecca's post?

Honestly, what is the point of hacking into someone's MN?

Saw it too. Makes the hacker out for a 13 year old kid, in his bedroom, waiting for the summer holidays to finish.

Not good. Not good at all.

Gone now ...

I can just see Rebecca's post saying to change pe's and don't feed the trolls

*pw's

Missed any weird update, someone explain what happened please