LS Forum Hacked - "Account Suspended" Options

[LS Support]

as seems common over the past 16 years, the site has been hacked. unfortunately, this could spell trouble for the future existence of the website since the host will likely pull the plug if it happens again. please realize this site is a very important part of my existence. i will do what i can but mean people always seem to win. if we go down again, all i can say is keep checking.

[Jon730]

well it looks like we are getting hacked again (denial of service DoS) from china, russia and other fun places. the forum board is back up now for the time being. i do not expect other shutdowns but these things generally do not go away on their own. which means at some point we may be down again for a little while or a long while. fingers crossed, don't know why hackers would want to hurt a site like L-S. sad.gif

Most individual sites, including my business and personal sites used shared hosting space on a server drive. There could be hundreds, even thousands of sites on one server. So you (we) were sharing space on sites of interest- like small businesses with credit card payment gateways, or political sites that act like lightning rods, or gaming sites that attract l33t hackers.
We are of no consequence, and are mere collateral damage, like civilians in a combat zone. It's rarely personal.
I had a hack attempt on one of my commercial sites.
As I said to my hosting company
"We know where the servers are where they sell stolen credit card numbers.
We have cruise missiles.
WHAT'S THE PROBLEM!!???"