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Our security was bypassed when one member gained unauthorised access to one of our moderator's accounts. This moderator had limited access to the administration panel. Upon gaining access, the hacker deleted several member's accounts, banned other moderators, and removed some user groups. We have spent the evening correcting these problems, and restoring some parts of the database from our daily backups, and we are confident that these problems have been corrected. If you think you have been affected by this, or there is still a problem outstanding, please let us know.

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Yeah it was an IP in Bradford, England if I remember correctly and was the same as fire_spinners, but it was blacklisted, and a lot of the proxies mglib used appeared to be real IP addresses but quite obviously weren't.

As for restoring backups, a database backup is generated every 24 hours, so we will never lose data older than 24 hours.

And for the files, I have every file on my own hard drive so if anything ever gets deleted I can simply re upload it. I'm also writing a script to create a weekly backup of all files in the /downloads/ folder of thegtaplace and storing it on my own server, so in the event of everything getting deleted, I wont have to personally upload 2Gb of data, I can simply use the server's 100Mbit connection ^_^

That's a brief insight into how it wouldnt matter too much if we were hacked ;)

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eermm I have a question. I posted something on here and it was cut off and set to trash.

why? was it offending? if so I'm must apoligize.

*oh I see, but you should still remove that avatar of "paluie" becuase its immature and offending

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Our security was bypassed when one member gained unauthorised access to one of our moderator's accounts. This moderator had limited access to the administration panel. Upon gaining access, the hacker deleted several member's accounts, banned other moderators, and removed some user groups. We have spent the evening correcting these problems, and restoring some parts of the database from our daily backups, and we are confident that these problems have been corrected. If you think you have been affected by this, or there is still a problem outstanding, please let us know.

is this why serveral user names r different

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Our security was bypassed when one member gained unauthorised access to one of our moderator's accounts. This moderator had limited access to the administration panel. Upon gaining access, the hacker deleted several member's accounts, banned other moderators, and removed some user groups. We have spent the evening correcting these problems, and restoring some parts of the database from our daily backups, and we are confident that these problems have been corrected. If you think you have been affected by this, or there is still a problem outstanding, please let us know.

is this why serveral user names r different

-sigh- Do you not notice the date that was posted? -_-

The name changes aren't really name changes. They are called display names and it's an option in the CP((control panel, incase you didn't know)).

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Our security was bypassed when one member gained unauthorised access to one of our moderator's accounts. This moderator had limited access to the administration panel. Upon gaining access, the hacker deleted several member's accounts, banned other moderators, and removed some user groups. We have spent the evening correcting these problems, and restoring some parts of the database from our daily backups, and we are confident that these problems have been corrected. If you think you have been affected by this, or there is still a problem outstanding, please let us know.

So you see, now that proved that IPB is damn cheap while vBulletin is way better. :thumbsup:

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So you see, now that proved that IPB is damn cheap while vBulletin is way better. :thumbsup:

Dude. IPB its WAY better. Vbulitin is only like 20$ while IPB is 160$. It doesn't have to do with the type of forums. Any one can hack any fourm. it happens. So don't blame the forum itself. ;)

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