The Wholesale Forums

[Anthony]

Community..

At around 7pm last night The Wholesale Forums was subjected to an attacked by an un-identified "hacking" group. The un-indentified users managed to gain access to the server that holds all the files and folders associated with this website. Once they gained access they then proceeded to delete these files and folders!

Upon returning to check the forum at around 8pm last night was the first time that I had noticed what had happened. Some of you may have seen the page that they left - I am told this is standard issue from the disgusting people that decide to destroy other people's hard work and partake in these highly illegal activities.

The situation at the moment is that the forum has been restored to how it was before this attack took place. Thanks to Keiron of BetterWebSpace who has been doing some work for me, he had a backup of the forum's key data which meant I could re-upload the files back onto our server.

The reasons for why we were hacked/attacked are unknown, however the probable explanation is the rather aged version of the forum software (which is due to be upgraded along with a change of web hosts early July).

Over the coming days I will be talking closely with my current web host to see what can be done to try and get the people responsible for this brought to justice. Although probably an impossible task, after spending most of last night worrying that this wonderful community may have gone for ever I have the motivation to take things as far as I can to try and get those responsible!

My deepest thanks to Keiron! - This wouldn't of been possible without you!

So a warm back to everyone and lets get the forum populated once more!!

Many thanks