Hacked

[Brandon]

If anyone was wondering what was up with the forums today, they were hacked. I'm pretty sure my forum account was "bruteforced" (technical term), which allowed the hackers to get into the administrator panel for the forums.

At no time did the hackers have access to any of your private information (such as your passwords... they are stored in another database and are encrypted).

We regained control of the forums quite easily actually. The hackers banned James (and made some modifications to his accounts), and changed my password to lock me out. Luckily, they forgot to change my email address and I was able to change my password via the "forgot password" function. I deleted sessions and restored the database. There were a few problems with the restoration, and they have been fixed now.

Screenshots: image 1 (http://sfftnet.com/sources/images/hacked1.jpg)
image 2 (http://sfftnet.com/sources/images/hacked2.jpg)

[sfft_2108]

I was scared when I saw HACK all over the place and that rabbit.

[Greenville, Texan]

Somebody's stupid idea of fun. Whoopee ...
Glad you were able to straighten it out so quickly.

[SupermanFan2332]

Good thing they got it straightened out. I tried logging in yesterday but the board was offline. You think it could be happening to all invision boards?

[sfft_2108]

No, this was the only one hacked.

[Brandon]

Nope it was just this one. It was offline because I was making some modifications to the database since the restore came out a little weird.

[SupermanFan2332]

Oh. Cause last year Robb Alveys site also got hacked. But I think that it was a PHBB board.

[James]

SHooooot.... shake them hackaz off. *wink*

[SupermanFan2332]

Fo Shizzle.