Subj : Re: lemon64.com down
To   : Andreas Kohlbach
From : B
Date : Mon Dec 28 2020 08:14 pm

On 2020-12-21, Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Dec 2020 09:00:43 +0100, Tristan Miller wrote:
>>
>> The Lemon64 site at https://www.lemon64.com/ seems to have been down for
>> some time now -- a day, at least, or possibly longer.  Does anyone know
>> the reason?  Has the site been abandoned?
>
> Apparently hacked, as already mentioned.
>
> https://www.reddit.com/r/c64/comments/kd3y94/is_lemon_64_down/
>
>|  This really burns me that some asshole did this - especially to
>|  hobbiest websites that have no financial gain for the attacker.
>
> Probably by a fanatic ATARI user. ;-)

It's more likely the owner has not cared about security
for many years and as a result the sites got hacked by
bots. Let's hope the Swedish data protection agency has
mercy on him, or rather not.

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