What Happened?

razor_boy · Post by **razor_boy** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 6:15 pm

Vince,

I was browsing the forum (8:00pm Central time) and the interface suddenly changed.

Have you been playing again???

Paul.

Johnnie · Post by **Johnnie** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 6:39 pm

I agree with the others. This is the typical forum. I like the old SMF forum better. Plus there is no link to the homepage or the gallery or the chat. WTF?

Johnnie · Post by **Johnnie** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 6:43 pm

Guy's Vince did not change this. We may have gotten hacked but Vince is working on it. It will be restored by the morning.

Vince is going to call his peeps at the FBI office and find the person who did this.

It's ok Vince and I have the latest cyber forensics technology and we will track the the hacker.

Post by **VinceFX** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 6:48 pm

Very weird. I will get this fixed ASAP. Sorry for the inconvenience. I assure you things will be restored to normal in a couple of hours.

Vince

Post by **VinceFX** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 8:29 pm

The forum has been restored to its intended design. Sorry for the brief glitch. There was an attempt made to hack the site which actually failed. Instead, all the hacker was able to do was default the forum to the original theme that is first installed.

I just had revert back to the customized "shavemyface.com" theme with the click of a button.

For all you hackers out there, I kindly ask you to stop tampering with the site. I probably can't stop you completely but with daily, automated backups to both the database and source code I can easily recover at any given time.

Vince

clownjuggles · Post by **clownjuggles** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 9:38 pm

GO VINCE! BRAVO!

Chris · Post by **Chris** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 4:28 am

I have shared my CC# with Charles in PM on this site...should I be concerned? Did the hackers access the PMs?

Post by **VinceFX** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 8:55 am

Chris,

From what I can tell the hackers did not access the PM's. However, as a precaution I would recommend NOT sharing CC#'s via PM. Such information should only be sent over HTTPS (secure website) where the data is encrypted and difficult to intercept by a third party. I have already gone ahead and patched the forum to the latest version of phpBB. That should help for the time being but as you may or may not know, hackers are quite resourceful. Generally it's only a matter of time before they find some other exploit. Be safe, be smart.

Happy posting.

Vince

Chris · Post by **Chris** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 8:57 am

Thanks Vince for putting my mind at ease! Why the hell would anyone want to hack us? We're good people!