re Ancestry and Rootsweb lists outage On the 16th June 2014 Ancestry servers were attacked by a huge DDOS strike <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack> This brought the Ancestry sites down including the lists Security was not compromised, no data lost or changed, no personal data taken The motive (I speculate) could be an attempt to get a ransom, Ancestry was not the only site attacked and at least one other has said a ransom was demanded It took Ancestry a couple of days to get the main site back online but other parts such as Rootsweb have been longer Its obvious Ancestry would want their paid for services working first Rootsweb came back online early on Tuesday the 24th June but the lists only started working properly about two hours ago Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) On 24/06/2014 09:54, annesteve.westley@gmail.com wrote: > Hi Everyone > > I have received no mail since about last Tuesday > > Can anyone explain? > > Cheers > > Steve Westley