Timing is everything, or so they say. Well, I'd say that lousy timing is really infuriating. The forum at chiari.co.uk (after a lot of teething problems) has been hacked. It seems that the extra publicity from the Daily Mail stories has got the profile just a little too far into plain sight.

The number of page hits per day jumped by over 5000% when the story broke in the Mail - many hundreds of google searches were coming into the site. Obviously, a site generating over 10,000 hits a day is a good candidate for some online hacking. The first I knew was on Thursday when the site became inaccessible, by Friday large parts of the site were being defaced - it seems by automatically generated scripts. When the forum database fell over it failed rather spectacularly, although all the data is still present, all the posts, all the pictures etc is still available and safe.