Did the boards get hacked?

[mouseguy77]

On the Welcome to the Dis and Dis Unplugged Podcast forums I am seeing a ton of posts that are nothing but Chinese characters. Is anyone else seeing this?

 

[sara1215]

I see it too. Spambots probably.

 

[BigAlsGal]

Yeah. Super annoying.

 

[BadPinkTink]

I have noticed this happens every day after the downtime, when the forum comes back online. When the forum comes back , the first 6 pages of new posts are all Chinese spambot posts. The mod / admin need to sort it out

 

[McNs]

It's not just here, I've seen it on Trip Advisor forums recently too.

 

[siskaren]

I have noticed this happens every day after the downtime, when the forum comes back online. When the forum comes back , the first 6 pages of new posts are all Chinese spambot posts. The mod / admin need to sort it out

You must be going on line very early then, because I can only recall one time when I spotted those kind of posts, and I'm typically on around 6:00 am. And the mods aren't on 24/7, by the way.

 

[KathyTX]

Just spam.

 

[BadPinkTink]

You must be going on line very early then, because I can only recall one time when I spotted those kind of posts, and I'm typically on around 6:00 am. And the mods aren't on 24/7, by the way.

The forum goes offline for me between 8.30 am and 10.15 am. I am in Europe so I am 8 hours ahead of LA, 5 hours ahead of New York. Maybe they should think about adding someone to the Mod team who is in a European time zone, so that issues occurring when America is asleep can be dealt with