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PC World Forums Outage -- 9/28/07

Posted by kellie Sep 28, 2007

As you may have noticed, the PC World forums were out for most of the afternoon and evening. We had a small hack to our forums, and we needed to take them down in order to fix it. Our technical team has been working on this all afternoon, and everything is all fixed and patched up.

As a result of the fix, you will be forced to log out of the site and log back in. I'm sorry for the inconvenience, but it is necessary to ensure the safety of the forums.

Thank you for your patience.

Kellie

Tags: clearspace, community, outage, login

Sep 28, 2007 8:35 PM

lilxkid24

looks like someone has a grudge on pcworld lol

Sep 29, 2007 6:42 AM

mphenterprises

Is there anything you can share with us as to the increased security of the forum since this hack?

Sep 29, 2007 10:50 AM

kellie in response to: mphenterprises

Well, the biggest thing is that we patched the hole that allowed the attack. We caught the hack nearly as soon as it happened (special thanks to AuroraManson for seeing it first and taking action), so the damage was minimal.

We are continuing to monitor our systems closely to make sure that everything is secure.