Hacker Destroys Avsim.com, Along With Its Backups

[Guest Brett Campany]

I've been watching for the latest on the news of the website "Avsim" that was hacked last week and came across this. It looks like the boys at Avsim will be starting from scratch all over again which is sad because it was a great support to the Flight Sim community.

 

Brett

 

"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.'"

 

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