Why Everything Went Down: Inside the Cyberattack That Disrupted CondoCafe, Blog and HOA Email

UPDATED May 7, 2026: As many of you are aware, the Lakes of Bent Tree server was impacted by the worldwide CVE-2026-41940 attack on April 30, 2026. In response, the Association worked 30 hours over the weekend to restore services and successfully migrate operations to a new server and operating system. The cyberattack impacting 1.5 million businesses. Updates on service restoration are posted below.

Impact to Residents

• Inability to log into CondoCafe (resolved May 6)
• Delayed or undelivered HOA emails (resolved May 6)
• Blog offine (resolved May 6)

Help Ensure You Receive HOA Communications

Unfortunately, newly deployed servers are often subjected to aggressive filtering and blocking by major email providers as part of broader anti-spam protections. While these safeguards help reduce unwanted email, they can also result in legitimate HOA communications being incorrectly filtered into spam or junk folders. It's not like the odl days where anyone can sucessfully send an email to 100 people.

To help ensure you continue receiving Association notices, newsletters, and updates, all owners are asked to take the following steps:

1. Check Your Spam or Junk Folder

Please check whether today’s HOA newsletter (May 6, 2026) was delivered to your spam or junk folder. If it was, mark it as “Not Spam” and move it to your inbox.

This helps train your email provider to recognize future HOA emails as legitimate.

2. Add HOA Email Addresses to Your Contacts / Address Book

• hoa-news@lakesofbenttree.org
• notice@lakesofbenttree.org
• board@lakesofbenttree.org

Adding these addresses significantly reduces the likelihood that future communications will be blocked or filtered.