Major website issue and loss of posts

[Neil Fitzgerald]

You may have noticed BirdingNZ has been offline since early on Friday.
This occurred because the web host company on which BirdingNZ runs made the decision to take its infrastructure offline and rebuild entirely new, hardened servers to deal with a significant global security event involving zero-day vulnerabilities. Due to the severity of the issue, they restored data from secure backups that were up to a week old.
This means that recent posts and setting changes you have made on BirdingNZ may be gone. I am very sorry for this. It is simply not something I have any control over, and not something the host company takes lightly at all (they have been working around the clock since 5 am on Friday to rebuild things). This is the first time in the nearly 17-year history of birdingNZ that we have suffered data loss like this, but it is still disappointing.
If you can’t find a recent post you made, please feel free to repost it if you can.

For those interested, this article goes into the technical details of the vulnerability and how it was unveiled. https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/0 ... scrambles/