Hi

There’s a lot we don’t know here and likely will never know. 

The claims from their press release:

1) Access was from “information purchased on the dark web”. I’d say that sounds a lot like passwords and user names. You can tell folks not to re-use them, good luck being certain that’s not happening. 

2) The attack was “unique”. Defending against a first ever of its kind attack is never going to be easy. It seems that’s what unique means in this context. 

3) If “no compromising data” was accessed in the breach, that’s doing *way* better than a whole lot of much better funded and much better staffed organizations out there. 

No, there’s not really a lot to go on and what’s above is only guessing based on tidbits. 

Bob

On Aug 23, 2024, at 9:43 AM, Ray Fantini via Milsurplus <[email protected]> wrote:

Would have thought most of this was due to people inadvertently downloading crap in their browsers and opening infected attachments? Figured the days of direct attacks on servers were long over in today’s world, unless you servers are managed by idiots. Keeping in mind the typical Hams affinity for stupid and useless attachments like animated gif files and the like perhaps that’s how it happens, don’t know but would also think that much of the files uploaded for contest results and the like arrive as zip files and maybe that’s how they got infected? Don’t know myself, dropped my membership with the league years ago. No complaints but they seem to be moving into their vision of the hobby and what I want to do is something completely different.
Thinking of how crazy the world is today I wonder how long before they are run by non-Hams and defer to professional management, nobody can screw thigs up as fast and bad as an MBA.
 
Ray F/KA3EKH
 
 
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