FYI the Ericson Yachts website was hacked yesterday; this is all that is posted at ericsonyachts.org right now:
11 pm, September 9th, 2013 - EY.o HACKED.
So where's the site, you ask?
Well, tonight, some malcontent with nothing better to do in their lives than hose over a group of sailboat owners hacked our website and laced the db full of obscene messages, words, etc.
At this time I CANNOT assure you that your email addresses have not been compromised. I have had the database disabled - so it's suspended right now until I can get a handle on the level of damage and what our options are going forward. No one can see the db right now - so it's safe as of now - but what they may have already done is unknown at this point (too early to tell).
The problem that I immedately see right now is that the way they pulled this off was to create admin-level accounts and then run scripts against the db, altering the threads and all the settings (descriptions, etc). If you receive ANY MAIL - AT ALL - DIRECTLY FROM EY.o - DO NOT OPEN IT. Instead, please email me (below) and advise that you recieved something from "the site".
I will update this page on a regular basis until I know what's happening - however, as many of you know, I finished grad school, and am now working again full time - so it's going to take a little while to do this. I would think that hopefully by this weekend we'll have a solution in place.
I apologize to all of you for this. If you have questions or comments, please feel free to contact me at ********** - and I'll reply to you on my gmail account. I don't want to list it here, for obvious reasons until I get a better handle on this.
Thanks for your patience.
11 pm, September 9th, 2013 - EY.o HACKED.
So where's the site, you ask?
Well, tonight, some malcontent with nothing better to do in their lives than hose over a group of sailboat owners hacked our website and laced the db full of obscene messages, words, etc.
At this time I CANNOT assure you that your email addresses have not been compromised. I have had the database disabled - so it's suspended right now until I can get a handle on the level of damage and what our options are going forward. No one can see the db right now - so it's safe as of now - but what they may have already done is unknown at this point (too early to tell).
The problem that I immedately see right now is that the way they pulled this off was to create admin-level accounts and then run scripts against the db, altering the threads and all the settings (descriptions, etc). If you receive ANY MAIL - AT ALL - DIRECTLY FROM EY.o - DO NOT OPEN IT. Instead, please email me (below) and advise that you recieved something from "the site".
I will update this page on a regular basis until I know what's happening - however, as many of you know, I finished grad school, and am now working again full time - so it's going to take a little while to do this. I would think that hopefully by this weekend we'll have a solution in place.
I apologize to all of you for this. If you have questions or comments, please feel free to contact me at ********** - and I'll reply to you on my gmail account. I don't want to list it here, for obvious reasons until I get a better handle on this.
Thanks for your patience.
