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What happened to HG!!????

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What happened to HG!!????

Postby Sharon » Fri Dec 09, 2005 2:24 pm

Well we were hacked yesterday...

After much effort we are now back though, well the forums are anyway!!

They might not look pretty... but they work and theres been no loss of data.

Phew! managed to say that without a single curse!
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Postby Alycidon » Fri Dec 09, 2005 2:33 pm

Well Done Sharon and all - missed HG today!!
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Postby McShad » Fri Dec 09, 2005 3:07 pm

Hack HiddenGlasgow? To what end?
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Postby Sharon » Fri Dec 09, 2005 3:10 pm

It was more that phpbb was a target, not HG.

Who knows why....Maybe hackers play the numbers game .. see who can hack the most sites.

*sigh*
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Postby McShad » Fri Dec 09, 2005 3:17 pm

Told ya to be careful when someone was asking about who hosted HG ;)
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Postby stinkpad » Fri Dec 09, 2005 3:40 pm

It was some dick called pakbrain, or someone using one of his exploits. Go give him a piece of your mind at irc.gigachat.net #WHACKERZ if you feel so inclined.
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Re: What happened to HG!!????

Postby red_kola » Fri Dec 09, 2005 4:11 pm

Sharon wrote:Well we were hacked yesterday...

After much effort we are now back though, well the forums are anyway!!

They might not look pretty... but they work and theres been no loss of data.

Phew! managed to say that without a single curse!


Well done for getting it back up so quickly! And thank god for regualr back-ups. Another site I frequent was hit recently and lost 6 months worth of postings. The guy who ran it just assumed that his hosting company did nightly tapes... Bad mistake to make!
Anyhow, thanks Sharon.
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Postby JayKay » Fri Dec 09, 2005 5:00 pm

well done getting it sorted so fast. Must have been a pain.
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Postby McShad » Fri Dec 09, 2005 6:42 pm

an IRC server? they are the easiest thing in the world to crash!
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Postby Ally Doll » Fri Dec 09, 2005 6:55 pm

Glad the forum's back - I had to work today 8O :wink:

Really sucks that it got hacked tho, some folk are warped. :? :x
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Postby Pgcc93 » Fri Dec 09, 2005 7:03 pm

You'll have noticed that the avatars haven't turned up yet!
So for those of you that had one wanna upload it again in the meantime... if you can be arsed that is ::):
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Postby Vladimir » Fri Dec 09, 2005 7:30 pm

Done ::):
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Postby Socceroo » Fri Dec 09, 2005 8:52 pm

Vladimir wrote:Done ::):


Is that the same Avatar photo up as you had before the site was hacked Vlad? ::):
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Postby Vladimir » Fri Dec 09, 2005 9:21 pm

Yes :? :wink:
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Postby ladylabobo » Tue Dec 13, 2005 3:36 pm

just a word of advice from experience with another board i was on - these hackers often set up their own admin accounts so that when you've restored everything, they come in and change it all again and sometimes even delete the original admin accounts so you cant access the backend.d

I just went looking for the name they usually use (cos its usually a variation of a theme) but the post it was in has since been deleted. GRRR.

I'm sure you're already doing this but just incase, perhaps you should have a few admin accounts you can fall back on. Sometimes it helps to change the usertitle thing from admin to something entirely different so a hacker (cos lets face it theyre not exactly future microsoft employees that hack phpBB) wont know about it.
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