what is wrong with blackcatsgames ?

[Recoba]

hi

the site is down for 10 days now ? what is wrong with it was it taken down ?

also if it's dead then what is the alternative ?

[LazyGuy]

hi

the site is down for 10 days now ? what is wrong with it was it taken down ?

also if it's dead then what is the alternative ?

Such DDOS, So Sad,
Host takes server down, Too Bad.


Basically, BCG is waiting for the DDOSer to find another Porn site/fixation to get his balls off on.
If its someone with balls that is.

[Recoba]

thanks for the reply i hope they will be back soon

[thedemon44]

I have the feeling these DDoS attacks are not going to end. Ever. This will only grow. Eventually we will learn that this is a concerted and organised attack by the people of the world who hate all things free. I hope I am wrong.

[IdolEyes787]

Eventually we will learn that this is a concerted and organised attack by the people of the world who hate all things free.


So I guess it's safe to assume that you work pro bono then,hippie.

[thedemon44]

I'm pretty sure you missed the point.

[IdolEyes787]

As I majored in points at University,I'm pretty sure I didn't. I think it was something to the effect that in your particular case,greed is only a bad thing if it's not in the first person.

As for "concerted attacks" by shadowy organizations,I can assure you that there are only two ways to control someone,submission or ignorance that you are being controlled neither of which appears to lie in the hands of the attackers.That and if the "attack" were well and truly from some organization of actual power and not merely fey internet types and they really wanted BCG gone,then it would be long dead.Wouldn't matter if it required moving Heaven and Earth and if you don't believe me then ask Bin Laden.

[stoi]

Bloody hell! hope they dont double tap me and chuck me in the sea.

Not heard a thing from the hosts, just sent them an email asking if there is any news, they say no news is good news but i have my doubts on this one, just a waiting game now with the hosts we have or we move to new hosts (which one I dont have a bloody clue though, but I am looking just incase)

[Tokeman]

Makes me wonder if a private torrent site with an IP whitelist would be appreciated by anyone. Not like the sites don't know your IP anyway and I don't see a downside there. But as usual I'm talking out of my ass.

[thedemon44]

Yep. You missed the point. No amount of education will change that.

[IdolEyes787]

Yep. You missed the point. No amount of education will change that.

Surprisingly,the English Faculty have informed me that the phrases "Missed the point" and "Chooses not to acknowledge the wank point" have entirely different meanings.

[thedemon44]

Yes.

[stoi]

Not getting hopes up but the hosts are hoping to get us back up this weekend or not long after.

[Hazardous]

Thanks for the updates stoi

[LazyGuy]

BCG has finally gotten Cloudflare, now its up to the hosting to get back up.

[darkblue]

BCG is back up
I
believe most people thought we would be gone for good there, but we've managed to pull through. After being the target of a rather large DDOS attack the hosting company decided it would be best to disconnect us until things would settle down. However, things were only getting worse so we were being kept offline for a longer period of time. And today, we're finally back online.

[Sparx]

bcg down again?

[stoi]

yep someone out there hates us.

[darkblue]

omg its down again:cry:

[absent_today]

Even cloudfare could not protect

[megabyteme]

yep someone out there hates us.

Maybe he'll quit once he turns 14 and discovers girls sports. :idunno:

[LazyGuy]

yep someone out there hates us.

Maybe he'll quit once he turns 14 and discovers girls sports. :idunno:

Or maybe catches STDs from excessive fapping.:yup:

[megabyteme]

Seems the only thing that gives his undersized, limp cawk any life is petty revenge (or whatever). I seldom use the site, so it's no biggie to me, just pointing out how tiny this person must feel in his empty life. :console:

[Sparx]

yep someone out there hates us.
Hope you are not thinking about closing BCG for good? :(

[Hazardous]

This is frickin' gay

[absent_today]

Can staff from other truckers help BCG out?

[LazyGuy]

This reminds me of the Irredeemable comics by Mark Waid.

How the supervillain Modeus used to torture The Plutonian time and again with no other motive than the act itself.
Later it was revealed that it was Modeus' repressed unfulfilled lust towards the Plutonian that drove him to commit such acts with no other motive than to draw the Plutonian's attention.

Maybe someone has a Hard on for Stoi?

[absent_today]

Hope they come back by End of Day

[stoi]

The hosts are going to go into the server and do stuff to hopefully mitigate these attacks, that will be about 9pm GMT, it could take 2-3 hours and hopefully we might be back, but best laid plans of mice and men = something wont go as planned, so not building your hopes up too much.

[absent_today]

I'm hoping that could be the time when MLB 14 The Show would come :D

[Hazardous]

The hosts are going to go into the server and do stuff to hopefully mitigate these attacks, that will be about 9pm GMT, it could take 2-3 hours and hopefully we might be back, but best laid plans of mice and men = something wont go as planned, so not building your hopes up too much.

Thanks again for your perseverance in this Stoi. Stick with it. Don't let the terrorists win

[Sparx]

Once the site is up for good I will help with some donations.
I think many will do the same :)

[stoi]

It never just rains, it bloody pisses it down doesn't it :(

It looks like the latest DDos has blew the server, the hosts cant get into it, it doesnt post, its basically a dead server atm.

I am in contact with them so will update when I know something, but this is fucking depressing (I have man flu as well which isn't helping in that)

[stoi]

Sorry for the double post, i hate doing it but have not got a lot of option.

We are hopefully going to get a new server sometime this week, but it will take setting up etc and nothing goes as smoothly as we would all like, no ETA but we are coming back.

[Rart]

Double posts aren't really a big deal. There's an automerge feature to prevent idiots from spamming too much but thats about it.

I would offer advice but I know absolutely nothing about DDOS's. Hope everything goes smoothly for you guys. Any site with a ratio independent seeding option and staff that don't view people on FST like heretic infidels are a-ok in my book.

[absent_today]

Go stoi Go

[LazyGuy]

I am eagerly waiting for BCG to armor up and come back.
the more days spent on downtime, the more peers and hence torrents are lost.

[megabyteme]

It looks like the latest DDos has blew the server

Rart's mom is the only one who can blow a server like that. We need to find out what her beef is with the site. I assume it has to do with Rart downloading Rated-M games... :no:

[smcewa11]

Stoi, was just wondering if you had an auto erase of inactive members and if this ddos+problems goes on long enough will it delete everyone's account? :P

[stoi]

we have but it just needs commenting out before we make it live.

[pjcnet]

Just to update this thread, we have got a new more powerful server with a faster connection and most importantly DDoS protection. Work has been going ahead to get the server up and running and hopefully it won't be too long before we at least get the IRC online followed a bit later by everything else.

[crazzyjoe31]

That is awesome news pjcnet!!!! Thank you for the update!

[absent_today]

Awaiting

[absent_today]

Come on stoi bring it up some Brazilian kid has got hold up of watch dogs

[LazyGuy]

So it's been what 4-5 months since Blackcats went down?
I'll hazard a sad guess that most of the older torrents in BCG is dead(0 peers) by now,
even if BCG does manage to come back up in the near future, it'll have a long and uphill struggle to match and re-upload the library of games(older and waay older) it had before going down.
just like the situation at Demonoid right now.


essentially BCG still remains the best gaming tracker, but only because there are no one else in the field, and its also the reason we can't let it go.
It is sad, unfortunate and almost a personal loss.

[crazzyjoe31]

Any new updates Stoi....pjcnet?

[thinkor]

will they save users? or will we have to re-register with reset stats?

[Arguti]

I'm getting a page with a black cat saying: "Blackcats is having maintenance. We'll be back shortly."

At least is something new...

[smcewa11]

I'm getting a page with a black cat saying: "Blackcats is having maintenance. We'll be back shortly." At least is something new...
BCG News: We have updated the DNS which will take effect for everyone within the next 48 hours (for most people it will take effect sooner). When this takes effect for yourself the IRC will be online, the site has been closed off with a maintenance message however for some final testing once the change kicks in for everyone. From BitTorrent Trackers DOWN or BACK UP thread.

[Arguti]

BCG News: We have updated the DNS which will take effect for everyone within the next 48 hours (for most people it will take effect sooner). When this takes effect for yourself the IRC will be online, the site has been closed off with a maintenance message however for some final testing once the change kicks in for everyone. From BitTorrent Trackers DOWN or BACK UP thread.

I have seen it now, great news :)

[absent_today]

Nice cat btw

[bamboo]

YEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Time to donate, seeds never left my client either!

[IdolEyes787]

YEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Time to donate, seeds never left my client either!

Not to suggest you may be overreacting a bit to the news that a videogame tracker is coming back online but Captain Phillips displayed less emotion when rescued from Somali pirates.

[megabyteme]

In fairness, Philips didn't have a BCG account to look forward to upon his return. :no:

[IdolEyes787]

In fairness, Philips didn't have a BCG account to look forward to upon his return. :no:

He did but it was disabled.
This being bt where staff are inherently a bit full of themselves,they just couldn't fathom* why he couldn't download something off their site for three months.:unsure:

*nautical reference.

[megabyteme]

Barnacles don't grow on BlackCats. :no:

[stoi]

In fairness, Philips didn't have a BCG account to look forward to upon his return. :no:

He did but it was disabled.
This being bt where staff are inherently a bit full of themselves,they just couldn't fathom* why he couldn't download something off their site for three months.:unsure:

*nautical reference.

Surely the Pirates could have downloaded something for him. Mind you he would have been banned for account sharing then.

We have not pruned for months.

As for latest. Still a few minor issues but we are getting there.

[IdolEyes787]

Surely the Pirates could have downloaded something for him. Mind you he would have been banned for account sharing then.



Interesting that in the film at least,the pirates were portrayed more or less sympathetically while the true villains if there were any were the SEALS who didn't hesitate to lie and killed with neither emotion or mercy.

[bamboo]

YEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Time to donate, seeds never left my client either!

Not to suggest you may be overreacting a bit to the news that a videogame tracker is coming back online but Captain Phillips displayed less emotion when rescued from Somali pirates.

That's because all he was really doing was drinking that Somali pirate rum and getting laid and being a high value hostage, then got "rescued" to have to go back home to a real job and nagging wife. xD

All my seeds for BCG are working again btw, Stoi! :D

[absent_today]

Is it back ?

[(I)]

Great news :-)
BCG is one of the few irreplaceable trackers out there

[bamboo]

Seeds are running fine for BCG, so I guess the tracker is up and working fine, probably same with IRC too, now we're just waiting on the actual site to come back online so I can start uploading a ton of new Steam/GOG shit and donate.

[stoi]

We have just been ddossed again but the hosts mitigated it so I don't think it effected us.

As for donations. We are going to have to sort something else out, I don't want a ton of stolen credit card payments again like a month ago and they charge me for each one.

Looks like auto bitcoin payments if we can sort that out as the flattr account has been hacked as well, and that's gone.

[OlegL]

As for donations. We are going to have to sort something else out, I don't want a ton of stolen credit card payments again like a month ago and they charge me for each one.


Are you implying that not only were you ddosed by someone who wasn't a BCG member, but you also received fraudulent donations from people who were BCG members?

[stoi]

No, I'm saying the twats that are ddossing us also sent payments to my account with stolen credit cards, and there were a lot and each one cost me money.

[DrParker]

Wow who exactly did u ban? someone is full of vengeance :wacko:

[IdolEyes787]

Wow who exactly did u ban? someone is full of vengeance :wacko:

Failure breeds pity.Sucess breeds enemies.

[crazzyjoe31]

It is awesome to hear the DDos attack was mitigated! That really sucks about the donations though! I hope you guys can get everything sorted.

[OlegL]

No, I'm saying the twats that are ddossing us also sent payments to my account with stolen credit cards, and there were a lot and each one cost me money.

Why wasn't your account protected against those people who would attempt this type of fraud?

[absent_today]

Because he is just lazy

[stoi]

enlighten me how i can stop someone paying me with a stolen credit card into a paypal account with an email address.

Honestly i would love to know, how i could do it, as i dont think its possible, I have changed the email and deleted the old one now so that stopped it.

And they got the email as they hacked my flattr account, no idea how they managed that but they did, and yes i have done a full virus scan and my PC is clean, so guessing it was the heartbleed bug, but could have been anything.

[walshie_88]

Shit that really sucks having to pay money because some assholes sent u money from stolen credit cards, I hope u guys get back up and running again soon. I still have 42 torrents in my uTorrent seeding from u guys. Black cats is definitely the best gaming tracker out there good luck mate ;)

[bamboo]

Any updates on the site maintenance? Seeds seem to be working fine so the tracker looks okay, but the seeds #'s are dropping so the sooner you guy's get back online fully the better. I'll donate for sure, but not a lot of people are going to want to continue to donate to a tracker with so few seeds on every torrent or dead torrents. We need to get back online asap to build the seedbase back up before it's a done deal and the retention on all the older or obscure stuff is gone, and everything in general.

Just my opinion. And I though you guy's now had DDoS protection? So why did the DDoS attack even need to be mitigated or "possibly" effected you.

[pjcnet]

Any updates on the site maintenance? Seeds seem to be working fine so the tracker looks okay, but the seeds #'s are dropping so the sooner you guy's get back online fully the better. I'll donate for sure, but not a lot of people are going to want to continue to donate to a tracker with so few seeds on every torrent or dead torrents. We need to get back online asap to build the seedbase back up before it's a done deal and the retention on all the older or obscure stuff is gone, and everything in general.

Just my opinion. And I though you guy's now had DDoS protection? So why did the DDoS attack even need to be mitigated or "possibly" effected you.

I just can't wait for the site to be properly back online and I hoped it would be by now, but there are still a couple of things that aren't quite fully working that are being addressed, I however agree that we really need to get things sorted ASAP now. We have got advanced DDoS protection, the attacks were automatically detected and mitigated. In one way it could be considered good news, but I would have much preferred not to be attacked again at all. I'd love to know what we've done to deserve yet another attack even before the site is properly available, after everything we've been through already this year. Thanks for your continuing support and for so much patience too.

[(I)]

Waiting for the one-of-a-kind tracker :)

[LazyGuy]

how long would the maintenance take?

[Hazardous]

I love you Stoi :console:

[pjcnet]

how long would the maintenance take?

Well it shouldn't have really taken this long, but I'm pleased to say that it's finally looking like we'll be relaunching in a matter of days now as the main bugs have been resolved by the devs, there's just a few final checks and member HNRs are going to be cleared too! Thanks again for everyone's patience. :)

[turin]

looking forward to the relaunch :-)

[pjcnet]

Yes, yes, yes - BCG is finally back online!!! :D

[absent_today]

Dream come true , thanks a lot for persisting to bring the tracker up

[Hazardous]

Lets just hope its back for good

Still love ya Stoi

[turin]

Really good work Stoi and Pjncet!

[absent_today]

[2013] dbconn: mysql_connect: Lost connection to MySQL server at 'waiting for initial communication packet', system error: 95

[(I)]

Long live BCG :D

[Odin]

Hello everyone! I am back and BCG is finally back! What a day!

[Arguti]

I'm glad it is back. One of the few trackers that actually make a difference in content available.

[Asauma]

Finally is back!!!!!!how much time was closed???

[Rart]

Look at the start date of the thread and do the math?

[absent_today]

Now user details are being hacked

[Adama]

From Brokenstones
have no idea if its true

2014-07-25 -- Recently we've learned that Blackcats-Games has been compromised and all data was leaked.
For your security here on BS (and other trackers/sites) we would like to again remind you that your BS password should be strong and unique to BS.
Anyone who is or was a member of BCG and use the same password on BS, is strongly encouraged to change their password as soon as possible.
The same warning is valid for your email address if that too uses the same password.

[megabyteme]

have no idea if its true

Confirmed.


Jul-25-14 - Change passwords. - (stoi)
We are still looking into what transpired this morning, it "looks" like they hacked the forum database, but it is still very early days, that is why the forum is down at the moment, altinertia is looking into it right now.

It would be wise for everyone to change their passwords ASAP and all I can do is apologize if it was indeed our fault, it may be the forum software that had a hole, but we just do not know at this moment in time.