WTA, IEET and JET servers brought down by hackers

The servers that host the websites and mailing lists for the World Transhumanist Association, the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies and the Journal of Evolution and Technology were hacked into this past weekend and brought down.

Here's an email I got from James Hughes this morning,

[You may have] noticed that the IEET website was down for three days, and that our email lists are still down. That is because the servers in London that host the IEET, the Journal of Evolution and Technology, the World Transhumanist Association and a variety of other like-minded groups were brought down by a hack attack last week. The servers have now been rebuilt, but our email list is still inexplicably down. (This is coming through the website.)

We’re working on restoring the mailing lists, and hopefully will have them fixed shortly.

We have no idea whether the attack was ideologically motivated or not.