FSAirlines

Posted: **Thu May 14, 2009 12:51 am**

Folks,

Today, AVSIM was destroyed by a hacker. Both of our primary servers were hacked and the partition tables destroyed, and that will be very difficult to overcome. I won’t speculate on who did it, but we will have a forensic done on our disks and scrutinize the logs to validate our suspicions.

I would appreciate if you could post the following as a news item or announcement on your websites or forums. Nels and Francois, I know we have been competitors, but I would very much appreciate you posting this on your web sites, if you could.

PRESS RELEASE: AVSIM Hacked!!

Tom Allensworth, CEO and Publisher of AVSIM, today issued the following announcement; “We regret to inform the flight simulation community that on Tuesday, May 12, AVSIM was hacked and effectively destroyed. The method of the hack makes recovery difficult, if not impossible, to recover from. Both servers, that is the library / email and web site / forum servers were attacked. AVSIM is totally offline at this time and we expect to be so for some time to come. We are not able to predict when we will be back online, if we can come back at all. We will post more news as we are able to in the coming days and weeks. END

Best Regards,
Tom Allensworth

Posted: **Thu May 14, 2009 1:11 am**

What kind of scum hacks a non-profit website dedicated to providing freeware addons for a harmless flight simulation game???!

The guy better get prison for this.

Posted: **Thu May 14, 2009 1:23 am**

not only does this affect avsim, but all of posky's files at there site were hosted there along with dreamwings, project airbuses, and many more. this is especially bad for the single developers... thankfully i downloaded a package that had all of mike stones aircraft he ever made in it... luckily alot of the planes/files were hosted at other sites.

Posted: **Thu May 14, 2009 1:55 am**

what did you use for the sig? i cant get it to work...

Posted: **Thu May 14, 2009 2:14 am**

Add this line to your signature: Just make sure to replace the {squiggly brackets} with [solid brackets].

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Posted: **Thu May 14, 2009 2:29 am**

The temporary AVSIM forum: http://linux.myalbemarle.org/forums/index.php

Posted: **Thu May 14, 2009 1:20 pm**

Why do this.......idiot

FSAirlines

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