Virus Infiltrated Friendster Database

Last night as I was checking my Friendster account I noticed that my list of friends doesn't look like my list of friends. And as I checked further, it says that I only have 40 friends on my list from 100 something that I used to have. I also checked my groups but they were not there... Another thing that I've noticed is when I delete the so called friend that I have from my list it is not showing that I actually removed them.

Did my account got hacked?

One of my buddy was online last night and he said that it was down the other day. And they are working on some updates and today I received an e-mail from one of my batch mate in high school and he said that

"Friendster has suffered a great damage on their site as a virus named h4xor-niytmare had infiltrated their database..."

I don't know if it is true or not but I am guessing it might be because of those issues that I had. I also found out from a few friends and some blogger that they are having the same issue.

If you have an account with Friendster, do not log in to your account for the time being to give the people at Friendster to fix the problem.

Recent Updates:

According to Friendster there was a building wide power outage at the data center in California that resulted to the current issue that they are experiencing. And all of the data are intact and should be back within 24 hours... So I guess the virus thing is not true..

Read more FAQ's below specially if you have a friendster account.

Here are some FAQs to help address your concerns:

• What happened to my friends?
  Currently, the number of friends in the friends list is being displayed incorrectly.

• Are my friends lost permanently?
  No. The data for all friend connections is intact and is not lost.

• When can this be fixed?
  Friendster is currently working on this problem and we hope to have this fixed within 24 hours.

• Can I still add friends while the problem has not yet been fixed?
  Yes, users can still add new friends and use other features of the site.

• What caused this problem?
  There was a building-wide power outage at the QTS / Globix data center in Sunnyvale, California, USA where Friendster’s servers are co-located, along with about 50 other customers. As a result, the memory caching of data was affected. Since Friendster has 85 million users, the cache is taking a considerable amount of time to build. Once the cache has been completely built, all friends will re-appear.

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