I am SO looking forward to seeing their tears when it comes back up :)
Clearly, the Russians did it.
Who would have guessed that out of all the hacking scares going into the election, the only thing that was hacked was their website! LOL
I don’t buy the hack story. It was either intentional or he didn’t pay his server fees.
Email Hillary.
Seriously, while I strongly disagree with DU, this type of hacking is wrong.
Go to their facebook and twitter and wish them well...
It was Russia.
Are you sure it wasn’t Bernie or Donna? How about Carlos? What point was there for a Trump supporter to disrupt when your night was already going from bad to worse! If DU had stayed up, hemlock might have been a popular drink.
Heh I see you found a way around the DU posting ban...
I was going to say that I’m sure all FReepers will now join in the hunt for the Real Hackers.
(psst Skinner...I’m not saying it was Russians, but it was the RUSSIANS!)
These guys couldn’t bring their server up in an entire day? What, no backups? No system administration? I want to feel sorry for them because it deprived me of some great gloating, but really, nobody in the biz should be this incompetent.
Is DU even a high profile enough site that people would want to hack it?
They seem pretty puffed up about their importance.
Changing my tag line in honor of this.
UPDATE 11/9/2016 1:00PM ET
We have now come to believe it is possible that the hacker may have been able to gain access to certain member information on our server, including: Usernames, email addresses, and IP addresses. Passwords were not as easily accessible, and at this point we do not know if it was possible for the hacker to access them. (Further note that passwords on DU are “hashed” and saved in a cryptographically scrambled format rather than as plain text, so if the hacker could access a member’s password information they would not have direct access to the password itself — only to the hash.)
We can say for certain that donor data, such as credit card numbers or addresses, were not compromised because that information is handled by PayPal and never passes through to our servers.
We are not going to bring our website back online until we believe that we are no longer vulnerable to attack and our members’ user information is secure. Unfortunately we do not know how long this process will take, and it could possibly take days.
We will be posting updates on Facebook and Twitter.
Thank you again for your patience and understanding.
Insert MS DOS 3.3 Boot Disk, Turn Server On.
Type Command: "Format C: /S" (No quotes) and hit the ENTER Key.
That'll do it!
there is no hack lol!
Worst part of the night was not being able to watch their world fall apart in real time.
Oh, c’mon. I’m supposed believe some low-information, poorly-educated, “deplorable” hacked the mighty DU. How is that even conceivable?!? /s
A can of gas and some matches is the only way to fix that cesspool.
DU was all Hillary all the time. They kicked out the Bernie supporters. Now there is no Hillary, so is there any use for DU anymore? How do they rebuild their own viewer base?