Dear BEA forum users,
As you probably know, the BEA forum was hacked a few weeks back and all data was lost... except for the data that was backed up prior to the hacking fiasco. The back ups were incrementally being made (daily) for the database, however the attachments were not being backed up as often (due to the sheer magnitude of the data). Unfortunately, the data for more recent attachments was overwritten by the "hacked" (or rather, deleted) data, as backups were made overwriting old data. This was a mistake on the part of the system administrators and NOT the moderators (so please don't complain to them). Because of this the way backups are being made has changed as to prevent this from occurring again. Of the tens of thousands of attachments that the forum had, about a quarter of them were lost.
Please DO NOT spend time asking moderators to restore missing attachments as it is not possible. What is online now is what has been restored. Unfortunately, this is the way things turned out and we mustn't get discouraged for future participation on the forum. This community has been built on the hard work of the users, moderators and admins and we should continue to build it together. Mistakes were made but knocking each other around over it won't solve anything.
If you have any images stored on your hard drive that you see are "missing" do us all a kind favor and reupload them to the thread.
Cheers,
Gabe