To all Dancetalk users:
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Our website has been hacked and some data was compromised. I'm in the middle of data recovery efforts right now, and I haven't surveyed all of the damage yet, but as best I can tell only two things were lost: All names of products in our store (which I have already restored), and message threading data for all Dancetalk messages.

I have a data backup set that I can restore from, but this dates back two months, so once I'm finished there will still be two months' worth of articles that will be un-threaded. Unfortunately, these will be the most recent two months, and therefore the most likely to be read. For this reason I recommend that everybody switch to sorting articles by DATE by scrolling to the bottom of this page and clicking the link "Newest On Top" under "Sort Order".

I will probably hire an assistant to help re-sort the recent messages once the smoke has cleared. If anybody is interested, let me know.

Also, if there are any Windows Server experts in or around the Los Angeles area willing to spend a day with us to help beef up security and back-up procedures, please give me a call at 310-838-8180. Thanks.

I apologize for the inconvenience.

Regards,
Jonathan Atkinson
www.ballroomdancers.com