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Offline Nowhere Man

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CosmoQuest forums
« on: August 25, 2016, 06:13:50 PM »
Starting a few days ago, I've been unable to get to the CosmoQuest forums.  My regular link -- http://cosmoquest.org/forum/forum.php -- takes me to the CQ main page.  From there, the link to the forums -- http://cosmoquest.org/forum -- shows a page that says "Server is having difficulties. Please be patient while we attempt to resolve these issues."  It's not even HTML, just plain text.

I remember about a day before that, an announcement link that looked very suspicious, claiming to be from God or some such.  I avoided it.

Does anyone know what's going on over there?

Fred
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Offline smartcooky

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Re: CosmoQuest forums
« Reply #1 on: August 25, 2016, 07:13:27 PM »
I'm having no trouble connecting to either of those links

Try again, and when the message comes up, press CTRL-F5



ETA: If that doesn't work, try one of these

http://www.refreshyourcache.com/en/home/

« Last Edit: August 25, 2016, 07:24:41 PM by smartcooky »
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Offline Nowhere Man

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Re: CosmoQuest forums
« Reply #2 on: August 25, 2016, 08:42:37 PM »
They got hacked.  Cory has secured the place and moved it to a new server.


Fred
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Offline bknight

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Re: CosmoQuest forums
« Reply #3 on: August 26, 2016, 10:41:20 AM »
Quote from: Nowhere Man on August 25, 2016, 08:42:37 PM
They got hacked.  Cory has secured the place and moved it to a new server.


Fred

Yep, I've got access today for the first time in a couple of days.  I wonder what achievement the hacker got over this hack?
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Offline revmic

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Re: CosmoQuest forums
« Reply #4 on: August 26, 2016, 12:26:19 PM »
Likely either practice in basic database hacking (best to due on non-commercial sites) or recruiting zombies with another target in mind
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