This is a good example why one should avoid registering on a website.

If you remain anonymous, the chances of a critical data breach are much lower.

Was confidential user information such as user names, email addresses, and passwords encrypted or available to the hackers as plain text? What other information is stored on your servers, such as IP addresses, cookie history, and other traceable data?

I suppose this is a warning to users not go give up this information casually.

The Embarcadero Media Group group, needs to tighten down it's security on it's servers. Get rid of old accounts and force everyone in there domain to change passwords and only give admin privileges to a select few.

Remote access needs to be tightened up as well, delete old accounts and ask the users to change passwords. Even that may not stop it. Use a VPN software that after 5 trys of the wrong password, it disables the account.

They restored from backups but they lost some user comments that were left after the most recent backup. What will I do if I can't read the accumulated drivel of commenters over that few hours period?

Some sad clown in a sad clown mask doing sad clown things.
Imagine how small, cowardly and powerless one has to feel to do this stuff.
I hope he finds some friends. Anyone who fears the MV Voice this much needs a reality check, and probably a long overdue hug or some other form of human contact.

Not the last time it will continue

No, they weren't afraid of Embarcadero Media or its readers.

They are terrorists. The object of terrorists is to promote terror. They target sites like Embarcadero Media's properties to make innocent people afraid and fearful of living their normal lives.

That's the point of groups like Al-Qaida or the Boston bombers. The Tsarnaev brothers didn't have any particular hatred for marathon runners or race watchers.

Really? Taking down our community newspaper?

So what information are they afraid of? Bus lanes on El Camino? A recipe for muffins in The Food Pantry?

The PA Weekly's article won't let me post, not sure if there is a good reason for this or not.

However, I don't think it is completely sorted yet. I can access both on my computer but my phone will only let me read the headlines and if I try to read the full story on my phone I still get Guy Fawkes.

Could this be some sort of practice run for a major hack on a big site like CNN or Reuters?

Due to repeated violations of our Terms of Use, comments from this poster are automatically removed. Why?

Hopefully the MT. View Cyber detectives well find the culprits and bring them to justices.

Off with their heads.

The MV Voice should look no further than ultra-lib & insane Occupier hackers trying to force acceptance of of illegal aliens and rent control upon us. We're in a new world, where hackers are more powerful than politicians, who are too cowardly to confront them.

Psssssst...I think that OldMV is your main suspect here...