"The site, which launched in 1996, covered all aspects of flight
simulation, although its main focus was on Microsoft's Flight
Simulator.
The attack took down the site's two servers and the owners had not established an external backup system.
The
site's founder, Tom Allensworth, said that the site would be down for
the foreseeable future and was unsure if would ever go back up.
"The method of the hack makes recovery difficult, if not impossible, to recover from," Mr Allensworth said in a statement.
"AVSIM
is totally offline at this time and we expect to be so for some time to
come. We are not able to predict when we will be back online, if we can
come back at all. ""
Tip of the day, backup your shit.
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