I Spy for the FBI
So that data loss that happened on ezboard around 31 May 2005/1 June 2005. The one where ezboard managed to lose a year's worth of messages (according to the stats. for our ezboard, something like 70,000 messages including a whole section devoted to one of our members, a paramedic who'd died from a brain haemorrhage). The one where those messages were dismissed as mere historic data by ezboard. The one where we discovered that the backups we were paying ezboard to make had somehow all been deleted too.
Well if you recall, ezboard offered a little reward for information leading to the arrest of this heinous hacker. And ezboard told us they'd brought in the FBI to apprehend the villain who'd been clever enough to hack into ezboard's network, delete all the current data, hop across to another network and delete all the backups (note how they weren't secure, off-site backups - Disaster Recovery, anyone?).
Well that hacker must have been very clever indeed or he'd have been apprehended by now wouldn't he? What with the might of the FBI hunting him down and everything. Funny how I've seen nothing about any arrest or even any ongoing investigations. If I were a cynic, I might be tempted to think that there never was a hack at all and that it might just have been incompetence from ezboard that led to the data loss. And that claiming it was a hack would have diverted criticism away from Labatt and his small band of lackeys to some nebulous creature for people to blame.
