Hackers Breach Their own “Rules” and Take out a Game Community

This one really bugs me. First of all let me step back for a moment and talk about the hacking community in general. There are two types for the most part, for profit and the ones that are still trying to unlock whether or not aliens landed or if we landed on the moon. Now the latter is generally harmless. They might do something prankish here or there such as the Palin incident but for the most part it’s nothing malicious. They aren’t stealing your pin number and it’s more or less a game. Then there are the ones where they are out to get your last cent, steal all your passwords and take over your computer. They could care less about what you want or think and the dollar is the bottom line.

But recently a hacker or group of hackers went over the line. The line was always (if you don’t want to be one of those bad hackers going after bank accounts) don’t do anything malicious. Don’t seriously hurt anyone. Only target bad guys (you know the Dick Cheney’s of the world) But someone completely wiped out a gaming community and for no apparent reason. The site has been around over a decade and was meant for flight simulator enthusiasts. If you aren’t familiar its basically like flying a plane, you can literally fly any plane ever built such as the Wright brothers or anything you can imagine because the communities create models of every plane every built. The people working on the programming spend thousands of hours creating models and maps (so you can fly anywhere in the world) its horribly painstaking but they do it for the love of flying and why anyone would maliciously target a site like this is beyond me. It doesn’t take a hacker much to take down most sites because sites like this don’t typically have anyone targeting them. Security isn’t an issue because it would be like hacking into a baby’s breathing machine, most people wouldn’t ethically even consider such a thing. But someone wanted to show how tough they are on the internet and went ahead and wiped out both servers. In an instant they destroyed the work of thousands of people who spent over a decade working on the site.

But the lesson here is that apparently fewer and fewer people have any sort of ethics and who knows who they would attack next. Just because your site only has a little bit of traffic doesn’t mean that it’s safe from these sorts of attacks. If you don’t know if your site has a backup you should create one now. If it’s an online backup (which they typically are) they could easily wipe that file too. You should backup the site and move it offline or at least put it in a few different places. This isn’t hard to do and after a few months of work or a decade of work to see that gone in an instant it’s important that you think about this. If you are unsure whether you have multiple backups or this is beyond your ability to fix then I seriously suggest calling someone right now to have this done.

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