Hi

Been down for a few days

Any ideas as to why

Thanks

Malc

On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 23:27:03 +0100, wrote:

Hi

Been down for a few days

Any ideas as to why

Thanks

Malc

There's a temporary page because they claim to be "experiencing
technical difficulties".



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Andy Hall wrote in
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On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 23:27:03 +0100, wrote:

Hi

Been down for a few days

Any ideas as to why

Still down as of Thrusday night - probably got severely hacked, as I can
think of no other reason for a major retailer to be offline for so long
these days.

Hope their business continuity plan is in place :-)

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Regards.

Nick Pitfield )

Nick Pitfield wrote in message ...
Andy Hall wrote in
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On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 23:27:03 +0100, wrote:

Hi

Been down for a few days

Any ideas as to why

Still down as of Thrusday night - probably got severely hacked, as I can
think of no other reason for a major retailer to be offline for so long
these days.

Hope their business continuity plan is in place :-)

Even if they have been hacked there is no excuse for being off-line
this long. Very poor show guys...

On 3 Oct 2003 05:41:42 -0700, (Matt Beard) wrote:

Even if they have been hacked there is no excuse for being off-line
this long. Very poor show guys...

It's there right now. Looks fine (the term fine being used in a
relative sense in this case of course, since it is B&Q! ;O)

Take Care,
Gnube
{too thick for linux}

Gnube wrote in message . ..
On 3 Oct 2003 05:41:42 -0700, (Matt Beard) wrote:

Even if they have been hacked there is no excuse for being off-line
this long. Very poor show guys...

It's there right now. Looks fine (the term fine being used in a
relative sense in this case of course, since it is B&Q! ;O)

Take Care,
Gnube
{too thick for linux}

Firstly I still can't see it, and secondly it is the homebase site
that is down, not the B&Q one!

"Jon" wrote in message ...
It wasn't hacked, there was an inept attempt to apply a patch that went
wrong, it was then discovered that the back-ups had not been done in some
months. So they have decided to bin the whole thing and build a usable
website.


Really? Where do you get your info?

Matt

On 4 Oct 2003 10:49:07 -0700, (Matt Beard) wrote:

Firstly I still can't see it, and secondly it is the homebase site
that is down, not the B&Q one!

OOPS, sorry, mea culpa - still, it's not like you're missing anything
at all in that case, since it's been neither use nor ornament at any
time in it's history - literally a "web presence"! ;O)


Take Care,
Gnube
{too thick for linux}