-https://www.kotaku.com.au/2021/07/popul ... are-cards/“PokeBeach was hacked on Monday,” begins an explanatory post by the site’s creator, Jon Sahagian, known pseudonymously as Water Pokémon Master. “All files were deleted. We have been assessing the situation for the last 72 hours. I have barely slept.”
The enormously popular Pokémon TCG site (boasting nearly 4m visitors in May this year) was started by Sahagian when he was 14. On Monday, hackers deleted nearly two decades of files from the site’s servers, and even ran scripts to remove back-ups. Their intention was to keep a copy for themselves, and then use it to blackmail Sahagian into paying to have it restored.
Due to the efforts of the site’s hosts, the hackers were prevented from finishing downloading the site, but not before the attackers had already deleted back up versions. As their attack was interrupted, Sahagian reports they “issued a command to wipe it clean.”
Onsite explanation...
-https://www.pokebeach.com/2021/07/pokeb ... r-the-site
