Comment on American Radio Relay League cyberattack takes Logbook of the World offline
667@lemmy.radio 1 month agoIt’s step one of the PR playbook: assert that it’s not a big deal, and if it is a big deal then it’s not so bad, and if it is so bad then remember it’s a free service, and if you were paying then you probably need credit monitoring.
vk6flab@lemmy.radio 1 month ago
Much more significant is the wider impact.
What I want to know, as a former user of LotW, were my details part of this hack and if so, why did they not notify me.
If not, how do they know that?
This is not a PR exercise, even if the ARRL appears to be downplaying the whole thing. This goes to the heart of how our global community hangs together.
To make matters worse, their website now returns a proxy error.
vk6flab@lemmy.radio 1 month ago
Update: Their website now appears to be loading again. I have contacted their media team for comment in relation to the data for global LotW users.
667@lemmy.radio 1 month ago
I’m with you, and add to that only one update every ~72 hours is a long stretch between updates.
I reckon they can’t update users individually because as I understand it the email system was also affected (can’t recall where I saw this), additionally they possibly just don’t know the scale yet, and if they do know the scale, they are preparing their statements in advance.