What happened to the forums?

[Virtualgenius]

Kasper maybe you should put out an official Announcement with the facts this will dispell the myth and inuendo's

[boxman]

To be honest I kinda agree with you... I dont really know much about maintaining a forum, but I would think it was possible to keep the old forum open until it was transfered over to the new server to minimize downtime. I think a week is way too long, but I guess something unexpected happened...

[Apollo13]

Kasper maybe you should put out an official Announcement with the facts this will dispell the myth and inuendo's

The forum attack was from a Syrian pro-Assad group calling themselves Security Lion Hackers. The guy who hacked it calls himself Security Dragon. The front page had a bunch of pro-Assad images and photos of bombed and burned-out buildings.

Squad locked-down the forum until it could be brought up again.

Was it somebody masquerading as a pro-Assad group? Who knows.

[PanWieldingMann]

Feels good to see the forums back up, though I hope the best for its(and 'residents'') safety from being targeted.