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Apr 29th, 2008, 12:52 AM
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Site Down
Hi,
I apologize for tonight's downtime ... our server was hacked and the hackers got root ... It wasn't pretty  Cheers, Dani
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Apr 29th, 2008, 6:12 PM
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Re: Site Down
Is there anything we need to be worried about if we visited during the attack?
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Apr 29th, 2008, 6:27 PM
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I doubt it, other than getting a skull & bones then getting redirected to another site.
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Apr 29th, 2008, 6:29 PM
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Re: Site Down
Nope, they did not access the database or any Apache logs, so none of your personal information was compromised.
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Apr 30th, 2008, 5:27 AM
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Re: Site Down
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no malicious code planted in the server?
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Apr 30th, 2008, 6:20 AM
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They only got access to one of the web servers, and were apparently just doing malicious tasks, like deleting content etc. |
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Apr 30th, 2008, 7:45 AM
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Apr 30th, 2008, 6:20 PM
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Apr 30th, 2008, 5:04 AM
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Re: Site Down
I really dislike people that try to hurt others!
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Apr 30th, 2008, 10:07 PM
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Man I hate hackers. More so script kiddies, couple of wannabe Neo from the matrix type of kiddies probably.
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