Adult star Taylor Wane's Website may take several months to recover completely from a hack attack that took the site down Feb. 9 – but she has been able to recover and restore many if not most of the individual pages, thanks to fans.
"Taylor has been up every night since it happened until four o'clock in the morning," said her husband and partner, Laurien DuTremble. "Up at seven o'clock. Desperately trying to get it back up, (which) sounds like the guys in this business. So far, thanks to die-hard fans that downloaded pages and saved them for whatever reason, she's been able to restore mostly all but the last four months."
Fans have been e-mailing Wane and sending her their saved files to help her restore the site ever since the news of the hack broke, DuTremble said. "They heard what happened," he said, "and have been very supportive. But it will probably take months to get it back where it was. What else do we have to do besides keep up with the hectic deadlines of our movie schedule?"
DuTremble said the couple wants to thank those fans who pitched in on getting the recovery started, "for their loyalty and their support. I'm sure that, knowing Taylor, it will only prove an experience that she turns in her favor," DuTremble said, "to make the site even better protected and designed."
Wane herself told AVN.com after the hack she believed a group of underground hackers and programmers, perhaps interested mostly in transferring pirated DVD material internationally, hit her site's servers, trying to hijack bandwidth, "and my Web host fought tooth and nail to cut them off, but after hours of trying to stop them, (the hackers) eventually got pissed off and deleted over eight gigs of my site."
