Yes there has been a crash and mirculous the recoverd all the data, as far as i know, with help of amazon. (or Microsoft
Our hosting company decided to do some more unplanned maintenance overnight that affected the regional portals. Everything should be back to normal right now. They have been fixing some serious security issues on their end, and unfortunately gave us little to no notice of the timing of the updates. See https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/securing-azure-customers-from-cpu-vulnerability/ for more info)
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