Community Forums attacked


Posted by .lou on 25 Jun 2006 (1635 views)
As some of you may have noticed, the community forums were hacked earlier today. They were hacked by a scriptkiddie who used a MyBB exploit to get his way inside. The board is now closed, and we are waiting on the main administrator (absorbation) to take a final decision what to do with the situation. I was personally able to get the forum back to a forum, but I put the board to offline untill absorbation decides what to do.

Sorry for the inconvenience this may cause.
-Lou

Update (by absorbation):
Thanks to our wonderful host, dreamhost, I fixed the forums within seconds using a backup from a hour before the attack. Everything is back to normal now and the forums have been upgraded to fix the sercuity issue. The hacker's time really went to waste, I fixed the forums quicker than he could destroy them.
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Comment by .Lou
Posted on 27 Jun 2006
I must thank shrbr for telling me as soon as I came online to WLM, about the hack. I logged into the admin cp and put the forums to a safer position. The hacker is now banned from the forums to ensure no more problems. (The idiot hacked the other forums I'm admin on, msgweb.nl)


Comment by jerone
Posted on 27 Jun 2006
why does some people always spoil it for the rest of the world

Good jop absorbation


Comment by absorbation
Posted on 26 Jun 2006
Here I am half asleep, got up about 5 minutes ago, checked the website for emails and I see this, lmao . And to think I was going to make a full backup of the website yesterday, shows me for being stupid. As for the hacker, meh I don't see why you are sad enough to do this, but I really do not mind. I just can't see any motive.

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