Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment--20151004230850/@comment-1398253-20151007031756

Fandyllic wrote: It could take awhile. Wikia is a victim of its own success. Sometimes when you grow fast you cut corners and pay the price later. In many ways, Wikia has been lagging on security just from an outsiders point of view. It might be much worse on the inside.

On the whole, what has happened hasn't been too bad as far as we know. Nothing has been irretrievably lost. Unless Wikia is hiding something, no mass theft of personal data has occurred (or if there has been, by law, California residents like me will have to be notified). No large parts of Wikia have been shut down for very long periods (days to weeks).

The biggest problem to me is that the hacks seem to have prevented Wikia from communicating to users because the measures they took, possibly because they had to, locked down so much that there was a communication breakdown.

In theory, your best bet for info after the DB lockdown was @Wikia on twitter, but it stopped tweeting around 4 pm and didn't restart until hours later while the DB was still locked down. Yeah, there was no Technical Updates post yesterday and I bet there won't be one tomorrow either, as they'll be working on repairing the damage instead of the planned patches.