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   B to Andreas Kohlbach   
   Re: lemon64.com down   
   28 Dec 20 20:14:05   
   
   From: bliep@Your.Bathroom   
      
   On 2020-12-21, Andreas Kohlbach  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.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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