why are two romhacking sites down?

[death is the road to awe]

www.romhacking.net
www.ffhacktics.com

Can't find 'em. Anyone else have this problem?

[Maximum Potion]

Because of the vulnerability in HyperVM that resulted in over 100,000 sites being completely wiped out. (A vulnerability so bad that the creator of the software actually committed suicide as a result of all the damage.)

According to a thread on NC's personal forum, the site should be online again this weekend, albeit only current as of April 5th which was the last time anybody bothered to back it up. (But apparently, Neil is in the process of combing through Google's cache of the site, keeping track of updates that were made after April 5th so that they can be readded manually.

This is a quote from InVerse on the ChronoTrigger topic in Rom Hack, page 6 referring to romhacking.net.