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

Initially it finished with

UPDATE: I'm a massive fucking faggot who doesn't know what I'm talking about.

She's right you know

Yep, I saw it too, it was an offensive message on the bottom of the update. I am a bit worried now.

It's changed again.

Well, thats just lovely !
Thanks for telling us cats

Oooooo oooohhhh. ...

Becca's post had a fairly crude Update added, almost by way of a PS. So either the whole post is a fake or ms/mr hack accessed the post instantly to edit it. Latter sounds way too complex ...

tosspot.

Rebecca's big post has gone all I've got is "Ayyyyyy lmao" ??

Now Cats post has changed and Rebecca has clearly been hacked

Oh its changed again

Oh FFS.

Tiresome.

No there was no update when she first posted it, then the update happened, then it disappeared.

Then cats post changed and then Rebeccas post changed again to Ayyyyy lmao

Rebecca's post is ayyyy lmao here too.

Do you just want to do a web chat instead dad sec? What biscuits do you like?

Tell us about your children?

Interesting. This may be the point to say 'I'll stop using MN for a while until they get things sorted'. Just as a precautionary measure of course.

Do people still use the term 'Faggot'. How very 1970's.

Wow. We all might be ... well, absolutely anyone ... does that mean I can cry off work as I might not be who I think I am? Thought not.

How about we all ignore the idiot, leave this thread alone and let MN sort it. Don't give the idiot the attention.

Or American, Quiero

As you surmised, tipsy. Not - is the answer.

I am SO confused.

Not sure what/who to believe. Might have to go and do some work. There's something I never thought I'd say.

H wow. I saw Rebecca's update and now it is ayyyy lmao. I didn't see cats post changed though. Strange as Rebecca said there wasn't access to people's accounts.

Good point, Cider.