D'oh!
https://www.astrobin.com/users/Andys_Astropix/
Dear all,
it appears that something serious happened on AstroBin today. I've now been investigating and trying to mitigate for 12 hours straight, but unfortunately I am certain that a currently unknown number of you have suffered the loss of some (many, in some cases) original uploads.
The data associated to images, on AstroBin database (which is a different system than the place where the image files are stored), is safe.
I don't know the reason yet, but in the meanwhile I have changed all the passwords used by AstroBin (database, storage, servers, etc). Note that this has nothing to do with your passwords you use to log in to AstroBin: they are encrypted.
I will update with my findings on this forum thread:
https://www.astrobin.com/forum/c/ast...of-thumbnails/
For now if you see the message "We are very, very sorry, but it appears that your image suffered a catastrophic data corruption", then that image is gone. Luckily you don't need to start over and lose the data, the comments, likes etc. You only need to replace the image file on that form, and hopefully you still have it on your computer.
Please visit your gallery after log-in, and the image thumbnails with the sad face are affected. If you are not logged-in, affected images will be hidden.
I can't even begin to explain how much I'm currently in shock, literally, and this is why this message is intentionally brief.
I will continue to investigate, and I’m awaiting help from the Amazon Web Services tech support.
In the meantime, if you are heavily affected, I want to say that I am incredibly sorry, though at this time I don’t know where the fault lies.
After the situation settles and I know more, I will offer compensation for the data loss with free subscription upgrades.
Thank you for your understanding and please keep an eye on that forum post for update.
Thanks!
Salvatore