Popular message board hosting company ezboard suffered a massive hack last week affecting thousands of boards.
Untold number of threads and posts were permanently deleted from thousands of communities after a “very precise and malicious Internet attack,” CEO Robert Labatt wrote in a message to users.
In a later note he admitted: “The most difficult and painful thing for me to report is that it will be impossible to restore full data on all boards.” Labatt reported that the hacker not only deleted the boards’ backups, but also historical backups.
“What we know is that late in the evening on the holiday Monday, May 30, here in the U.S., a person with significant and specific information attacked our systems. The attacker was successful in erasing historical board posts and the backup systems, which were password protected and on a separate network. They did not erase the posts of boards that were active on the system at the time.”
Well, that sounds like an inside job or ex-disgruntled employee. What’s surprising is ezboard didn’t keep tape backups or backup files on a non-networked server. Company techs have been working for days to restore what they can.
