On 22/07/2013 6:27 AM, Andrew McGlashan wrote:

http://ubuntuforums.org/announce.html

Part of the maintenance page below ....

Just a quick update TL;DR -- still down for users, restored, being tested by admins. Progress report 2013-07-20 2011UTC: Reports of defacement 2013-07-20 2015UTC: Site taken down, this splash page put in place while investigation continues. 2013-07-21: we believe the root cause of the breach has been identified. We are currently reinstalling the forums software from scratch. No data (posts, private messages etc.) will be lost as part of this process. 2013-07-22 -> 2013-07-25: work on reinstalling the forums continues. 2013-07-26: the forums are up running again and being tested privately by Forum administrators. Cheers A.