card_demon - 6:51 pm on Mar 26, 2009 (gmt 0)

Here is part of what they said:

What do we know about the damage done? This attack was very deliberate, sophisticated and calculated. The attacker was able to circumvent our security measures and access via an arcane backdoor protected by additional firewall. We are still investigating the situation, but we know the attacker infiltrated and deleted the backups first and then deleted three databases: user/post/thread. We have no record or evidence that private message data was accessed. Absolutely no credit card or PayPal data was exposed. Do we know the motivation behind the attack? We don’t know enough at this time, so any insight would be purely speculative in nature. WHT is a platform where positive and negative information is shared and exposed about business and individuals. Under TOS policy, we cannot edit or remove user-generated content at the request of an unsatisfied third party. Therefore, WHT tends to become the target for disgruntled individuals and businesses.

True enough Rosalind, as I say I think that policy here was a little strict, and although other places survive with letting people give more information perhaps here it still is more strict than it is ideal.

Mods are polite and seem fair. I just wonder about the policy. Can there be maybe comments from those that write the Rules. Is that Brent?