Sunday March 29th - Store is Back Online after BOTS attacked

[Lori Lee Smith]

Hello everyone! The Steel Guitar Shopper was experiencing some technical difficulties over the last couple of days due to a wave of automated bot activity (Carding Attack aka Automated Credit Card Testing). I tried a couple of things to stop the attack (BOTS were creating customer accounts to test credit cards) , but that also temporarily prevented real customers from placing orders. That has now been resolved, and the store is fully back online.

Good news — no customer information was accessed or compromised at any time. Everything remains safe and secure.

Thank you all for your patience while I worked through it. As always, I appreciate the support from this community!

Lori
The Steel Guitar Shopper

If you need additional information on "Carding", here's an articleI found on PayPal.

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[Larry Baker]

Don’t know where to find where steel guitars for sale and our extended family is listed. Thanks. The new format is hard to follow since the change

[Lori Lee Smith]

Are you talking about the Forum or the Store?

[Larry Baker]

Don’t know where to find steel guitars for sale on the Forum. Any help appreciated. Thanks. Larry

[Lori Lee Smith]

Hi Larry,

There is a Classified section on the Steel Guitar Forum that Forum members can access to view steel guitars that may be available. Click here to visit the page.

Thanks! Lori