Anybody want to buy icrontic.com????

[SeaSerpent]

Icrontic.com up for sale on ebay

For those who do not know what icrontic.com was...it was a forum site like Anandtech.

I guess it got hacked and now it is up for sale.

 

[iwearnosox]

Never heard of it.

Isn't buying a hacked sit like buying a car with no engine or wheels?

 

[fatbaby]

dang...I used to check their reviews back in the day where icrontic forums and icrontic the tech site were two different sites

 

[CTho9305]

Sounds like he didn't back up his database.

edit: this was sent to a news mailing list:

My fellow colleagues,

On the Memorial Day weekend www.icrontic.com <http://www.icrontic.com/>
fell victim to a hacker. At first it only appeared to be a simple form
of "graffiti" where our front page was replaced by the typical "you've
been hacked" splash page. The damage went deeper. In that very same
day the hackers used the server to begin DOS attacks on another IP
address and our server providers physically yanked the box in minutes.

In the wake the hackers destroyed everything that was Icrontic and
Icronticforums. Backups existed but, through an unforeseen twist of
fate, were destroyed. The site owner, Keith "Mortin" Whitsitt has
decided to shut the digital doors and has put the domain names up for
sale on EBAY. Icrontic is no more. Keith and I parted as friends and he
supported my running Icrontic 110%. He made it possible for me to be a
part of this community.

For the last two years I have managed Icrontic and you have received
many articles from me. I have retained all of my articles (over 200)
and am opening up a brand new site and forums. The content that we have
shared over the last two years remains with all of the reviews that I
wrote and all the guides, editorials and articles. Two other IT
professionals join me to continue what all of us do best. I hope that
you will continue to support me as I have supported you.

The next email from me will be as new review news on a brand new site.
The name may have changed.but the person you know is still the same. We
will be launching early next week under the name www.short-media.com
<http://www.short-media.com/>

If anyone announces to you that they represent Icrontic or
Icronticforums please note that this is not the same individual that you
have come to have known over the past two years. I wish the successful
EBAY buyer the best of luck but feel it would be unethical to
misrepresent themselves on the reputation for work from me that you have
come to have known.

Productively,

Doug "Mediaman" Kronlund

Former PR Manager of Icrontic

And now chief guy with a smoking hot credit card after starting up
www.short-media.com <http://www.short-media.com/>