I should like to apologise to everyone for the downtime over the past few days.

It would appear that someone penetrated the network of Fasthosts, where Officially Aisleyne is hosted, and gained access to all the master usernames and passwords. As a precaution, Fasthosts decided to shut down all systems and issue new master passwords to every site which it hosts. As Fasthosts claims to be the UK's largest hosting company, this affected a considerable number of sites.

Tonight we managed to obtain the new password from Fasthosts, reconfigure all systems and bring Officially Aisleyne back online.

I would like to emphasis that the intruder gained access only to the list of site master passwords. Every OA member's personal username and password is stored in an encrypted form, and wasn't compromised.

Hopefully, all systems are now running normally again.