AVSIM Hacked And Destroyed

The once popular mods website AVSIM has been hacked and destroyed. With no external back ups, AVSIM may never return to its glory.

[RonyDean]

This is really sad news to hear. Its been a little while sense iv played a flight sim, but I still dont like seeing a good site go down.

[Uncle Rico]

Welcome to the Internet. It is very unfortunate though, certainly will miss the site if they close indefinitely.

[The-Director]

Come on, this is the internet, if you have a site that even close to popular you have to have multiple external backups, even if it cost you a fortune, it's the most important security measure you could possibly do.

[zagibu]

If you have no backups, you are either extremly stupid (and therefore deserve the lesson of losing all your data) or you want to go out of business, but are not brave enough to admit it.

[patterson]

I haven't been to AVSIM in a while, not since I was heavily into FS2004 but this news is sad to hear.

So many mods created by a great community down the drain :(

[Jackel2072]

Yes the internet is still vary much in its "wild west" days. my only question is, why? Why would some one really want to do that? i guess its some little 14year old punk who thinks its funny.

[zagibu]

Actually, I would do it to just show them how important backups are...data without backups is not data.

[JDW]

Such a pointless thing to hack.

[NRG]

I doubt it was entirely pointless. Somebody probably had a grudge.

[ar]

"They commented that making regular external back ups was a very difficult process, simply because of the combined size of files being stored."
Sorry I don't buy that. There's huge business systems that makes enormous back-ups every day. I hardly believe there database was exceptionally big.

[Th3 Chr0nic]

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