Hacker Destroys Avsim.com, Along With Its Backups

el americano writes "Flight Simulator community website Avsim has experienced a total data loss after both of their online servers were hacked. The site's founder, Tom Allensworth, explained why 13 years of community developed terrains, skins, and mods will not be restored from backups: 'Some have asked whether or not we had back ups. Yes, we dutifully backed up our servers every day. Unfortunately, we backed up the servers between our two servers. The hacker took out both servers, destroying our ability to use one or the other back up to remedy the situation.'"

Comments

Re:This should be a lesson...

[BrokenHalo]

All that said, my condolences to the server admin / founder

He doesn't get mine. OK, none of this affects me in this case, but if I allowed 13 years' worth of data to be trashed like that, I would never be able to find a job again.

Re:These aren't hackers

[pimpimpim]

No. Without these malevolent hackers, the website would have gotten into severe problems anyway with this backup scheme. The ones that should be persecuted, if any, are the sysadmins who had a very sloppy backup solution to backup the data worth a lot of time invested by their community.