[LINK] FW: SMH: '4800 Aussie sites evaporate after hack'

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Paul Koerbin wrote:
> It is a pity (for them that) the Whirlpool Forum site a comprehensive robots.txt disallow on all user agents. Had it not we would have collected a copy of the site in the latest .au domain harvest we did in Feb-March of this year.
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> Paul Koerbin | Manager Web Archiving | National Library of Australia

Has the whirlpool forum gone - or is whirlpool where customers discussed 
their loss?

> Ph: (02) 6262 1411 | Email: pkoerbin at nla.gov.au
> 
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> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: link-bounces at mailman.anu.edu.au [mailto:link-bounces at mailman.anu.edu.au] On Behalf Of Roger Clarke
> Sent: Wednesday, 22 June 2011 10:00 AM
> To: link at anu.edu.au
> Cc: asher.moses at fairfaxmedia.com.au
> Subject: [LINK] SMH: '4800 Aussie sites evaporate after hack'
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> James Turner, security analyst at IBRS, said: "This could be the 
> nightmare scenario that every small/medium businessperson working on 
> the internet has in the back of their minds. If the attack is as 
> described then the malice behind it is appalling."
> 
> On the Whirlpool discussion forums, where there are over 60 pages of 
> posts discussing the Distribute.IT hack, customers were livid at 
> finding out their data was gone forever.
> 
> "I think I'm in shock ... I have lost everything .... I couldnt 
> possibly replicate all those years of work again ... my whole lifes 
> work is gone down the drain," wrote one.
> 
> 


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Marghanita da Cruz
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