Blue Iris hacked?

[Gimpymoo]

Anyone know what is going on?

Lack of communication from the devs is concerning.

 

[ChrisD.]

Oooh, not good, the CCTV system? Someone aught to inform the web host so they can block the page to stop people downloading whatever malware is on there.

 

[Gimpymoo]

Looks like a hack to me, little response from the devs other than their server has gone down.

Not sure if that is the full story.

 

[Semple]

Yeah looks like the site has been hacked and will be redirecting people to a dodgy site to download.

I'd imagine the majority of users who would be visiting the site and reasonably computer savvy and can spot that's clearly off a mile away.

 

[Mcnumpty2323]

Looks like it's turned people's paid for/registered blue iris
Into demo/evaluation mode too
Lot of very unhappy customers on reddit

 

[Donnie Fisher]

Lot of interesting comments. I suppose when you think about it there are a number of programs that phone home to check their validity, but I’d be cheesed if it downgraded what I thought would be a one time activation license.

 

[Gimpymoo]

Looks like they hosted their website and customer database on the same tin

Seems very amateur hour.

Only got my licence a week ago.

 

[Mcnumpty2323]

Must admit not used blue iris in a while
Though did like it
My needs got simpler
So I started using ispy which is free open source
Definitely not good publicity for blue iris though

 

[Rroff]

Lot of interesting comments. I suppose when you think about it there are a number of programs that phone home to check their validity, but I’d be cheesed if it downgraded what I thought would be a one time activation license.

I hate how much software goes this way - only takes a little bit of disruption to cause a huge issue (or the company goes out of business and people end up with expensive useless hardware, etc.).

 

[jklc]

Wow I was just looking into maybe using this and the site made it sound like they were down for maintenance and only had a direct link to the software.