Editor’s note: Ships in Scale received the following message directly from the NRG Board of Directors, who asked us to help spread the word to the broader ship modeling community.
In the last three days, there has been a global issue regarding the software that operates computer servers. This has impacted websites and servers around the world. An unscrupulous group of hackers had found a way around server security and had broken into many servers, destroying data.
Unfortunately for us, Model Ship World’s server was one of countless to be affected.
Over the last 36hrs, our host had taken our server offline to apply software patches which would secure our server, but by the time they did this, it was too late.
The attackers not only deleted the files from our primary disc, housing MSW, but also deleted the three backups we had on a secondary, separate drive.
Model Ship World doesn’t exist in any form. All files, photos, structure, posts, and data have gone.
This was out of our control, and there will many sites around the world, including corporate/business sites, which will also be destroyed.
All we can do from this point is to move on. It will take us some time to recreate the site as members knew it. However, it will NOT have the posts, topics and photos etc. It will be a fresh start.
Please bear with us while we look at this task, as our staff also have other regular jobs and need to fit this into their schedules.
We will be back though. Please bear with us at this time and give as much support as you can.
NRG Board of Directors and MSW Administrators