HACKERS TARGET FFUK

Last week, Football Forum UK was a victim of someone hacking into the boards. The event occurred on the 21st of May, at around 2PM. After 5 hours, the boards themselves were back online, and it was a short time later that everything returned to normality.

At this stage, efforts to find the perpetraitor have proven fruitless. It is unlikely that the hacker will be caught given the sheer volume of people logging into FFUK on a daily basis, much less the traffic throughout the internet world. This is something that invisionboard were looking into as of last week, but no word has been given since.

Commenting on the boards concerning the hacking, noble leader THX described this as "just a flat tyre on the hard shoulder on the highway of life, not a head on crash into an oncoming truck." He also paid tribuite to Karl for his assistance in getting the boards back up and running in a matter of hours after the attack. It is also a testiment to the members for continuing to support the board.

In what will be a busy period for FFUK with the World Cup a matter of weeks away, there was relief that the hacking was done at this time rather than during the tournament, if indeed it should have been hacked at all. Hopefully there are now steps to help prevent simillar situations from occuring in the future.

Matt Janson