Forum was "hijacked" and has been restored

[LisaM]

At approximately 2 p.m. on Thursday, the Forum was attacked by a random hacker and was "hijacked" for about a half hour. Thanks to the quick notification by several Forum members, we were able to contact our hosting company, who restored the database as of the last time that they had backed it up - 4 a.m. Thus, any posts made between 4 a.m. and 2 p.m. were lost.

We are planning to upgrade the software to ensure that this does not happen again.

[Tricha]

Thank you for saving the board!

This is unbelievable. What do they get out of that? I don't understand why they do that.

[Sxygrrl Huntress]

Originally posted by LisaM
Thanks to the quick notification by several Forum members...
It's a good thing those members don't have a life... err, I mean, they are very attentive to the forum. :laugh:

Thanks again everyone! Should I use the opportunity to ask/plead for forum donations so that the cost of the upgrades can be covered? :blush:

[jaguarin]

Just for info, this guy hacked most of 200 web pages today at the same time...

Thanks Lisa.... :D

Count on it SGH :dance:


I knew it doing a research in Google:

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HaCkEd By. nEt^DeViL. aB0 m0hAmMeD BaCk Ag@in ^_^ iSrAeL & USA g0v. This HaCkIng is Gift 4 ( Iraq & Palestine ) s0Rry Admin ( your forum isn't secure enough )
w w w. tiffjohnson.com / forum


For example....

[The Godfather]

If anyone is interested in seeing what this litttle jackoff did, I made a screenshot of it.

-Shawn

[darkphoenix]

Damn hackers. *sigh*

Oh, and definetly interested gf.

[The Godfather]

Guys if you want to see it send me a PM and I'll email it you. Beyond that I'd prefer not to give the little bleeptard any publicity...

-Shawn

[jaguarin]

Good idea, was disgusting this guy. He use his "talent" doing this stupids things instead help others or do something useful in this world that needs so much help.

[ShadowWalker]

Originally posted by Sxygrrl Huntress
It's a good thing those members don't have a life... err, I mean, they are very attentive to the forum. :laugh:


ha ha clunk

[Sxygrrl Huntress]

Guess the upgrades didn't happen soon enough as you see we were attacked again. Not to worry though, we are now in process of being upgraded to a newer version of vBulletin and by the time I wake up tomorrow morning, the forum should be there.

Now everyone, take a deep breath, relax, grab a cup of coffee, calm your nerves and send a donation to keep us going. :D

We are back and running and this shouldn't happen again. If it does, Lisa and I will be bringing out the heavy guns...

[NightStalker]

HEY now! i resent the comment that i have no life. sure, it may be true, but you don't have to remind me. :p you can tell jag though. :devil:

[Tricha]

I was really shocked when I read the message of the hacker today.
It's so mean. I mean, imagine you wouldn't have savety copies. All of the hard work would just be lost.

[TheHuntress143]

Stupid hackers :fume: :fume: :fume:

[WonkoTheSane]

somebody's pm box is full. so i have to ask here for a pic of what the idiot did.

[Sxygrrl Huntress]

Shawn - CLEAN OUT YOUR PM BOX. :ohboy:

[The Godfather]

Yes'm. Doing so. So many bloody PMs from Jaggy ;)

If anyone wanted those now two screenshots PM me again and I'll get 'em to ya.

-Shawn

[jaguarin]

Thanks for the change of the font colors, is most easy read the main page of forum...

HEY IN HIGHT TECH STYLE LOOKS AS OUR OLD FORUM!!!

OHH WOW!!! CONGRATULATIONS....

This mouth to mouth work to bring back the forum is great!!

:hug: :cheer:

Well, SGH, you weekend was not boring... :symbol:

[Tricha]

I like the changes too :clap:

[Sxygrrl Huntress]

I haven't made changes to the High Tech scheme yet. I've only been working on the New Gotham one. If you see anything change on High Tech right now, that's only because something I changed in NG affected both. ;)

[Tricha]

I haven't made changes to the High Tech scheme yet. I've only been working on the New Gotham one. If you see anything change on High Tech right now, that's only because something I changed in NG affected both. ;)
I was talking about "New Gotham" ;)

[Sxygrrl Huntress]

I was talking about Jag's post. ;)