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Tumblr was hacked?
Raise your hand if you have a tumblr page
Tumblr, for those of you who don’t know, is one of the newer microblogging websites
It’s kinda for that time when you feel like posting something that’s too long for a
tweet but too short for a blog but you’re too lazy to film a YouTube video
You’re just feeling kinda blagghhh
With an average of 2 million posts every day there’s a lot of people feeling blaaghh
But on December 6, this quickly growing website was hit with a major outage and went entirely
offline
Posting the message “We’ll Be Back Shortly”
Tick Tock went the internet clock, sixteen hours in and the site was still down.
Which leaves the question of HOW a major top 100 website could sink so fast
As someone who runs websites and who does not like to see them disappear, I know that
the first rule of hosting anything is to keep a backup.
That way when everything goes up in flames
You simply reupload your locally backed up files, and you don’t lose very much, if
any
For a website that’s as popular as Tumblr, the excuse of a ‘database cluster error’
seems a bit fishy to me
It’s almost like code for ‘we got hacked but if we use some big nerdy words nobody’ll
guess.”