ICA Site Hacked Again, Articles Lost, No Further Content Forthcoming Pending Security Review

 

With days to go before the 2016 Illinois Class, the Joomla-based ICA site was hacked and shut down by the site's host due to suspicious activity. Prompt action by webmaster Bill Buklis and Joomla administrator Maret Thorpe got the site up and running within hours with minimal content loss.

Over the next few days additional updated content was restored and other mysteries were resolved. Life was back to normal.

Yesterday (December 5), the site was attacked again and in the process of getting it back up, many recent articles posted over the past two weeks were lost.

This includied coverage of Nicholas Ladan's Grades 6-8 championship at the Polgar event in Kentucky, Sevan's Scholastic and the Sevan Memorial, the 300-player Bolingbrook Raider Invitational, the Chicago Latino Championships XXIV, the most recent Chess Wars tournament, November to December top rating increases, and numerous updates to existing content.

Until site security is assured, there will be limited to no further content posted.