Our GR Research website is down

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Danny Richie

Our GR Research website is down
« on: 12 Dec 2025, 08:34 pm »
Sorry guys,

We are not sure what happened. We may have even been cyber attacked. Whole chucks of the site are missing or not working.

I can't access orders either, but anything that was accessed and printed off as of this morning is getting filled. So I think we caught all of the orders that were placed.

This might take a while.

Danny Richie

Re: Our GR Research website is down
« Reply #1 on: 12 Dec 2025, 10:51 pm »
Working through a site restoration. Something broke on the hosting service end. This still could take a few days.
« Last Edit: 13 Dec 2025, 04:34 pm by Danny Richie »

Danny Richie

Re: Our GR Research website is down
« Reply #2 on: 15 Dec 2025, 08:39 pm »
Okay, the site is back up and running.

What happened was the result of a hack. Someone was able to break into my site by logging in (broke login codes) as an administrator.

What was interesting is that they didn't go in start deleting content. It is likely that they know there is a backup made every day through GoDaddy and it would have just easily been restored.

What they did was go in and use one of the plug ins to start adding thousands of lines of code that overloaded the site and the back ups. So it shut things down and corrupted the backup files.

Luckily GoDaddy was still able to remove the corrupted files and restore the site.

There really is evil people out there.

AcidTest

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Re: Our GR Research website is down
« Reply #3 on: 16 Dec 2025, 10:36 pm »
Wow, sorry to hear that Danny. It sucks that we live in a world where you don't even need to have a reason, just the ability to easily cause chaos and pain to others.