I finally reached a rep through the online service. They asked for my user name and applied a manual fix to my account. I was instructed to wait 15 minutes before attempting to log in and confirm the fix. I will post the results.
The forum said they are close to completion in terms of restoring service (as of 30 mins ago) but I still got nada. Has anyone else had success logging in yet?
I am logged in now and pulling up my charts using my third party charting service. So far everything works. You may need to get a rep on the phone or online to reset your account. That is what worked for me.
I called them. They are down and are working on fixing the issue. Probably due to the northeastern storm.
Dear Subscriber, Our records indicate you were likely unable to access our service on Thursday, February 6, 2014 for some period of time. We had a problem with our entitlement system that controls access to our servers. We apologize for any inconvenience caused by this issue and wanted to explain what occurred that day. As a part of our routine entitlement system maintenance, a legacy entitlement bit was removed from the table. This removal triggered a bug in the updating of the user record database from our Customer Management System and resulted in the deletion of thousands of valid usernames. This prevented a subset of our customers from accessing our platform. Once we identified the problem, we started reconciling the issue both systematically and manually. By noon Pacific Time, all of our customers were back on-line. Although this was a highly uncommon event, we take it very seriously and want to assure you that we have taken preventative measures to ensure that this does not happen again. Service reliability is critical in our business and we accept that responsibility with the highest priority. We also recognize that it was very difficult to get a hold of Customer Support that day due to the large influx of customer queries. We are reviewing our capabilities around handling large spikes of calls and how we can improve our customer notification options. In the meantime, please continue to utilize our Forum for the latest information on our products and services. Again, please accept our apologies for any disruption this event caused. We sincerely appreciate your continued business. Respectfully, Kyle Ford General Manager, Desktops Interactive Data Corporation