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Off topic, but what is going on with the comments in this discussion? Seems like a ton of new accounts, and strange behavior like commenting gibberish or exact same comment text within minutes of each other, for example:

    strattonoak 39 minutes ago | prev | next [–]

    The no access to data smells like a ransomware event. Why is data not available to export out and everything is taken down and not accessible? Seems like it's way more work to take down access that to leave it up?
        
    theoak 40 minutes ago | prev | next [–]

    The no access to data smells like a ransomware event. Why is data not available to export out and everything is taken down and not accessible? Seems like it's way more work to take down access that to leave it up?



My guess is that this page is ranking very high for the kind of search anyone would use for finding out more about the closure.

So disgruntled customers are finding the page and complain, competitors are finding the page to use for lead generation.


Yes, this seems to be what happened.

(But the specific accounts mentioned by the GP were a bit of a special case.)


So: that specific comment was posted three times, by accounts named strattonoakmont, strattonoak, and theoak. I googled the first and got this wikipedia page:

> Stratton Oakmont, Inc. was a Long Island, New York, over-the-counter brokerage house founded in 1989 by Jordan Belfort and Danny Porush. It defrauded many shareholders, leading to the arrest and incarceration of several executives and the closing of the firm in 1996.

It's the company from the Wolf of Wall street.




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