CONDOsingapore under attack

Dear registered members and readers of CONDOsingapore.com forum,

If you had just logged into our forum and felt like Hiro Nakamura travelling back in time in "Heroes", please read our explanation below.

As many of you are now aware, our forum was down the entire day yesterday. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

There was a vicious cyber-attack by person(s) unknown on this website yesterday, resulting in the disabling of the forum and partial corruption of our forum database today.

As a result, more than 7 months' worth of threads and posts have been deleted, and with them a whole lot of important information and resources, as well as hundreds of excellent analytical posts from our esteemed posters. We have tried our best to salvage whatever we could in the aftermath of this cyber-attack, and would have given anything to have the threads and posts back but alas, it was not to be. We mourn the loss.

What saddens us as well is the forced deletion of documented property market-related sagas that have enthralled us for the past half a year or so, including the sub-prime fiasco and economic slowdown in the USA, the cooling down of the en-bloc frenzy, the entire Horizon Tower en-bloc story, the subsequent cooling down of the local condominium property market in recent months, and most importantly the of accompanying opinions and views, both positive and negative, from our posters.

We have now tightened the security of our website and forum, and are delighted to inform the perpetrator of this malicious attack that he or she has failed to bring us down completely.

Finally, all registered members can rest assured that all email addresses and personal information given to us were kept safe and no access to these sensitive information was afforded to the perpetrator(s). However, some of your registrations have unfortunately been deleted as well. If yours was deleted, we hope that you will register again in order to fully utilise the functions of this forum.

Once again, we are sorry that this has ever happened, and we regret any inconvenience caused. With new and increased security measures in place, we will ensure this does not ever happen again.

We hope we can now put this debacle behind us and start a new chapter in the remaking of our forum community.

Yours sincerely,
Admin

what the heck.. why would anyone want to do as evil as this? what does he/she stand to gain? sigh lets hope this doesnt occur again... this forum has really been a good place for a casual chat on the property market! love it ! :)

Sour grapes in action?

Oh no. All my postings are gone. We are going back to the future......

This is a good omen that we will go back to July 2007!

Damn.......

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what the heck.. why would anyone want to do as evil as this? what does he/she stand to gain? sigh lets hope this doesnt occur again... this forum has really been a good place for a casual chat on the property market! love it ! :)

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My two-cents worth of analysis: some big guns (with deep pockets to hire hackers, etc.) out there trying to silence the spread of important information

This website carries many important revelations, vis-a-vis the Horizon Towers, Finland Garden, Pheonix Court, Gillman Heights, etc.

Ah, one very important thread that can send a tsunami to the entire en bloc industry -- REGENT GARDEN.

According to latest court papers filed, the minorities have admitted a secret deal with the developer and the lawyers for the developers have also admitted such a "separate" deal.

In this case, the buyers started negotiating with the minority owners only after the Strata Titles Board made its stand clear that a sale order cannot be given if the sale were below market value, a key point made by the minority owners, and the STB ordered a re-valuation of the property.

When the revised value showed an almost 20% higher price, the buyer secretly negotiated with the minorities to withdraw their objections.... the rest is history.

Thus, if this deal were to go through, who on earth would want to be the first 80%/90% to sign the collective sales agreement (CSA)?

Hence, if the facts of this case were circulated through this and other websites, you can expect all en bloc sales to be frozen for lack of the 80% majority and effectively spelt a death knell for the en bloc industry.

Ipso facto, it would be in the interests of the developers to hack this (and other similar websites) to keep the truth from other strata titled property owners.

Can't think of any other reason why such an important website would be hacked.

Thank you,

Dear Admin,

I am really surprised that you do not perform any data backup!

Please consider this issue seriously. There is no way for your system to be as secure as banks' websites whereby 24/7 surveillance is in place.

It is not a matter of trying to "strengthen the security". Rather, the priority should be to be able to have swift recovery with minimal data loss in the event of any malicious attack.

Don't you know that it is a crimanal offence under the Computer Misuse Act to hack other people's website? Why would developers want to take such risks? It will not benefit them in anyway.

This forum is infested with sick people who is capable of committing such senseless acts. Again, I think Admin has to bear some responsibility for not requiring prior User Registration as well as not enforcing censorship when it may be justifiable to do so.

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Originally Posted by Unregistered

My two-cents worth of analysis: some big guns (with deep pockets to hire hackers, etc.) out there trying to silence the spread of important information

This website carries many important revelations, vis-a-vis the Horizon Towers, Finland Garden, Pheonix Court, Gillman Heights, etc.

Ah, one very important thread that can send a tsunami to the entire en bloc industry -- REGENT GARDEN.

According to latest court papers filed, the minorities have admitted a secret deal with the developer and the lawyers for the developers have also admitted such a "separate" deal.

In this case, the buyers started negotiating with the minority owners only after the Strata Titles Board made its stand clear that a sale order cannot be given if the sale were below market value, a key point made by the minority owners, and the STB ordered a re-valuation of the property.

When the revised value showed an almost 20% higher price, the buyer secretly negotiated with the minorities to withdraw their objections.... the rest is history.

Thus, if this deal were to go through, who on earth would want to be the first 80%/90% to sign the collective sales agreement (CSA)?

Hence, if the facts of this case were circulated through this and other websites, you can expect all en bloc sales to be frozen for lack of the 80% majority and effectively spelt a death knell for the en bloc industry.

Ipso facto, it would be in the interests of the developers to hack this (and other similar websites) to keep the truth from other strata titled property owners.

Can't think of any other reason why such an important website would be hacked.

Thank you,

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I feel really sad that lots of information we posted is gone. Cannot imagine who would do a thing like that. It is so vicious. Well, I am going to try to help out as much as possible to repost certain stuff that is gone.

7 months of information all gone like that? Hope this will not misled people thinking that the current market is the same as 7 months ago.

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7 months of information all gone like that? Hope this will not misled people thinking that the current market is the same as 7 months ago.

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nah.. think when people read the articles, they can see the date which article was written

This should not have happened. I am sorry that it had. We are not infallible. Let's close ranks and move on.

The post July 07 threads are gone. All thread starters and posters of missing threads can restart even with just the titles, so as to continue exchange of views. I have to reregister.

The power of jealous & envy.
Pls get IT expert to try to retrieve & recover data as much as possible.

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Originally Posted by Unregistered

Don't you know that it is a crimanal offence under the Computer Misuse Act to hack other people's website? Why would developers want to take such risks? It will not benefit them in anyway.

This forum is infested with sick people who is capable of committing such senseless acts. Again, I think Admin has to bear some responsibility for not requiring prior User Registration as well as not enforcing censorship when it may be justifiable to do so.

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If you had read my input, your questions have been answered: they hacked the website to erase all information to their disadvantage as in the case of Regent Garden, if condo owners know they can stay out of the 80% majority and get paid extras by the developers, who would want to sign up as the first 80%?

And if nobody wants to sign up, how can an en bloc effort get the 80% to start the ball rolling? And if the ball is not rolling , how can developers buy the estate en bloc?

So can you see the link?

And to your question, the payment and acceptance of gratification to the deteriment of others is most likely a offence under the Prevention of Corruption Act and yet it is happening here!

There are indeed a lot of sick people in Singapore. Like the professor who stole the girls undies, the lawyer who stole a mobile phone and some cheap gadgets from a hotel room, the engineer who use his mobile phone camera to film up the skirt, and many, many others.

It is a real pity and stop blaming the admin for neglecting the backup plan... afterall, he/she is providing with such a nice platform to exchange information for free and how many of us appreciate it?
Lets move on and continue to post here constructively. :)

after the attack, most of the posting becoming more negative.
those positive stuff contributed by forumers all gone.
Something very fishy here.

can admin remove all the stupid comments?

i can sense that trouble makers are are back again

Admin why not make everyone register?

I think this will protect all the serious users in this forum

the admin like always not around one...

if yes, why not chose some moderators to moderate

the forum

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