Originally posted on 09/14/2013:

Many sports forum sites have been experiencing hacker attacks since early August. They are asking for a "consultants fee" to end the attacks.

Depending on the tech team and type of attack it can take anywhere from a couple of days to a week to get mitigation services on board. There are short term and long term steps that are involved so you may see a site come back up in the short term and continue to have problems until the long term solutions are implemented.

If your home forum is experiencing problems rest assured they are doing their best to defeat the attacks. Inhouse techs must work with a 3rd party mitigation service. In other words inhouse techs can not solve these attacks.

We continue to experience intermittent attacks that started in early August and continue to effect secondary services such as email.

To conclude, your forum management and techs are doing everything they can. Check back with them periodically.