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Old Apr 29th, 2008, 12:52 AM   #1
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Hi,

I apologize for tonight's downtime ... our server was hacked and the hackers got root ... It wasn't pretty

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Old Apr 29th, 2008, 6:12 PM   #2
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Is there anything we need to be worried about if we visited during the attack?
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Old Apr 29th, 2008, 6:27 PM   #3
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I doubt it, other than getting a skull & bones then getting redirected to another site.
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Old Apr 29th, 2008, 6:29 PM   #4
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Nope, they did not access the database or any Apache logs, so none of your personal information was compromised.
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Old Apr 30th, 2008, 5:04 AM   #5
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I really dislike people that try to hurt others!
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Old Apr 30th, 2008, 5:27 AM   #6
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Nope, they did not access the database or any Apache logs, so none of your personal information was compromised.
orly?

no malicious code planted in the server?
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Old Apr 30th, 2008, 6:20 AM   #7
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orly?

no malicious code planted in the server?
They did try to place a 'shell' on the system to access it later, but apparently they had some syntax errors in their code. Then OS Reloaded the box to ensure they didn't have anything else running.

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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Old Apr 30th, 2008, 7:45 AM   #8
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They did try to place a 'shell' on the system to access it later, but apparently they had some syntax errors in their code. Then OS Reloaded the box to ensure they didn't have anything else running.

They only got access to one of the web servers, and were apparently just doing malicious tasks, like deleting content etc.
ROFL, script kiddies
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ROFL, script kiddies
Heh yeah, I thought exactly the same thing, word for word even. Well, minus the 'ROFL', it was more a mental chuckle.
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Heh yeah, I thought exactly the same thing, word for word even. Well, minus the 'ROFL', it was more a mental chuckle.
I, on the other hand, was literally rolling on the floor laughing. I find it hilarious that they would hack a forum with a lot of programming topics, and have bad code. Though they probably didn't make it themselves anyway. Seems kind of lame to crack into a system and just start deleting stuff too.
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