Disruption to Historic Environment Scotland platforms, including Canmore and ScotlandsPlaces

From Historic Environment Scotland (www.historicenvironment.scot):

Early last week we noticed some unusual activity on a server that supports Canmore, PastMap, Buildings at Risk Register and Scotland's Places. As a precaution, we took this and related services offline to investigate further and prevent additional risk to our systems.

At this time, we have found no evidence that any information was stolen or accessed.

We're currently working on moving these services to a new and more secure platform. Rather than bringing the old systems back online first, we've decided to move everything to the new one as soon as possible. This means the websites will be impacted a bit longer, but they will be safer in the long run.

We appreciate your patience as we make this important switch. We'll continue to update you on our progress through this webpage. We expect to have a clearer timeline for when the websites will be back up and running soon.

In the meantime, our teams are ready to help. Contact us on the following email addresses depending on your query:

    Enquiries relating to our archives or archival services: archives@hes.scot
    Enquiries about Canmore and PastMap: archives@hes.scot
    Enquiries about the Buildings at Risk Register: barr@hes.scot

Several of our datasets, including Canmore point data, are still available to download from https://portal.historicenvironment.scot/, which is unaffected.

Thank you for your understanding! 

(Source: https://www.historicenvironment.scot/about-us/news/system-outage/ - with thanks to Andrew Armstrong, via the Scottish Genealogy Network)

On the ScotlandsPlaces site the following note is at the top of the page, with searches on the site returning no data:

Chris

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