Official Statement
The Future
#shore4life 🌴
Why we're down, a video explaining it, and Parker's apology.
Official Statement
#shore4life 🌴
Why we're down, a video explaining it, and Parker's apology.
Shore was targeted via cyberattack by a certain person/persons, and we are currently down because of it.
On the morning of May 10th, a hacker logged into Parker's account and deleted all of Shore's files. Everything tied to the panel was wiped out in one go.
To make things worse, there were no offsite backups in place at the time. We had just upgraded our hardware to support Multi-Region for MultiSMP, and the new backup system hadn't been set up yet, so nothing was saved.
If you want more information, message nolanykyk on Discord.
Don't worry, just because we hit a roadblock doesn't mean we're giving up. We're using this as a reset.
Hi guys, Nolan here. I'm not using AI to rephrase this at all, so if it's all over the place I'm sorry.
When you guys got on this morning, you shouldn't have been greeted with Shore being offline, then going to the Discord and seeing me spam ping "major announcement @ 1pm EST", and when this announcement came it was terrible news, how shore had all files deleted, etc.
I know a lot of you spent time on this server, this season, and I feel awful. My heart dropped when I found out shore wasn't up, and the reason why. I honestly don't have much else to say since it's still pretty early from when this happened, but if you guys are going to continue to play Shore, I promise you this won't happen again, and the future is going to be bright with the seasons to come.
#shore4life
From Parker, in his own thoughts. Rephrased by AI.
I owe everyone a real apology for never changing the password on the ShoreSMP panel. That's what let this happen, and I'm not going to dress it up or make excuses. I should have handled it better, and I take full responsibility. I know my words probably don't mean much right now.
I also know I've been inactive lately, and I understand how that's looked from the outside. There were times I should have been around more, communicated more, and helped more, and I wasn't. Looking back at it now, I realize how much this community actually means to me and how much I miss the way Shore used to feel.
Shore was never just another server to me. I still remember when there were only about ten of us online, staying up way too late grinding together. Those nights are some of my favorite memories. Everyone was close, everyone cared, and even the small stuff felt like it mattered. Watching Shore grow from that into what it became was special, and I don't want to lose whatever made it feel different from anywhere else.
I know rebuilding trust is going to take time, and I'm not expecting anyone to forgive me after one message. I have to earn it back through what I do, not what I say. Going forward, I'm putting everything I can into the new seasons and into bringing Shore back. I want to be more active, more involved, and actually show people I still care about this community. All I'm asking is for a little patience while I work on getting things back on track.