On or about 20 January 2013, AMSAT-NA's main web site www.amsat.org
was compromised by an attacker, with the contents of the supporting
database, including non-public information, posted on other publicly
available web sites.
It is likely that the attacker gained enough access to the
site to post arbitrary and possibly illegal content, so out of an
abundance of caution the main site was shut down.
Neither the AMSAT store nor the Fox project web site were affected by this breach. Mail services remain operational.
The main site was developed roughly 10 years ago by AMSAT
volunteers under a more benign Internet threat environment. The team
that built that site is no longer associated with AMSAT, so work has
been underway over the last several months to move to a modern,
maintainable, secure infrastructure. This recent breach will accelerate
that activity. In the interim, www.amsat.org will have limited content.
(Source: AMSAT's User Services Team via Southgate Amateur Radio News)
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