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Firefox
Grandforums was hacked recently by a pathetic group or individual.

We have applied all security patches that are available and a few other misc security items. We are fairly sure the person was using some form of SQL Injection to initiate the illegal hacking of GF.

We often create backups, and conviniently had a backup 20 minutes prior before the main hacking attempt occured and the forum was fully-operational within 4 hours.

All hosting accounts are held completely separate to Grandforums so no one experienced downtime during this humorous, but somewhat pathetic hacking attempt.

When a forum starts growing, as with Grandforums, it will get targetted by the lost sheep of the Internet. I thought of that one just now cool.gif

Have any questions about the attempts? Post them here (don't mention particular websites of the group).
Nishi
Everything is back to normal now, plus even better!
Conroe
It 's not the first time i think but the quick restore make it all oke!
The newest member 's name is hacker...
Schlik
wow, i was really scared for a while tongue.gif
Firefox
Yeah, they tried it a few times. Each time we had to keep looking at better ways of securing the forum.

Really just a waste of our time.

What I found funny was that they actually demanded money to leave us alone. Basically online extortion. Like that was going to happen. biggrin.gif

We are still patching a few things, some image icons are missing as you might notice etc. They will be put back shortly.

We should be at the end of any further attempts, however TFCPH admins and mods will be staying alert.
vicious
Cool, glad you guys are back online
Aquire
Great comeback smile.gif
Thank you Admins
riczi
grrr they are not hackers... they are script kiddies
Aquire
Be in limit ...Don't force them to attack again. dry.gif

QUOTE(riczi @ Oct 24 2006, 09:27 PM) *
grrr they are not hackers... they are script kiddies
badboy7862
hah dont worry even if they do attack again they dont know me i think only the admin on here knows me, yo admin tell em bout me
Nishi
I forgot to post that our security guard badboy7862 helped us out the most and maked sure to stop any oher attempts of a hacking.


He is a top hacker who knows his job he will be helping us on security from now on.

Thanks

badboy7862
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