Everyone,

Thanks for your patience and the web site is now backup up for use. It appears that serious damage was done in the middle of the week to the site and several key database tables were deleted after an attempt to take over control. I'm not exactly sure what exploits were used, but the site was definitely down. I restored the site from a September 2014 and also merged the untouched database tables and the site seems to be back up and running. No one succeeded in taking over control, but someone did damage the site in the process.

The lessons from this occurrence is that more frequent backups are required and we need to keep on top of WordPress issues since St. Louis web sites were attacked in the last few days with WordPress as a prime target.  I'm still in the process of figuring out what was exploited, but I am more carefully watching access to our database and who might have had/has access.

As a reminder, we have a meeting coming up on Tuesday March 10, 2015 and I can give more info about what happened if anyone is interested.

Thanks,

Heino

Heino Pull
SLRA Secretary