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Metkil5685
01-01-2012, 11:09 AM
Oh boy, this is gonna be a fun update.

First off, Happy New Years everyone.

Second, last night the website was hacked using a compromised administrator account. This account has been dealt with and should not be an issue anymore. When this happened last night all the forums and their contents were deleted and replaced with questionable content. After dealing with the account I immediately went to establishing the backups to the website. Here's where I screwed up big time. I had an automatic database backup going for every week on Friday. When I went to apply the backup to the website, I noticed something interesting. The database size was "N/A." Basically it didn't exist. This being said, I had to use the most recent manual backup, which was a month ago when I transferred the website to this server.

I deeply apologize for this and I will make amends for this (starting with manual backups every other day).

-Metkil5685

Harry
01-01-2012, 11:10 AM
Woah dude. What kind of hacker would choose New Year's Day though? What a no-life lol.

Mythonian
01-01-2012, 11:23 AM
Well, this is unfortunate.

I was online when that happened and saw what was put up. I was concerned, but was unable to log into AdminCP, and you were off of Skype Metkil. (it was like 1 am).

Well, time for us to try to recover what we lost.

I'm glad I have personal backups of the Accords, Rules of Engagement, and a few other things that we lost. Otherwise this would be ten times worse.

Metkil5685
01-01-2012, 11:24 AM
Well, this is unfortunate.

I was online when that happened and saw what was put up. I was concerned, but was unable to log into AdminCP, and you were off of Skype Metkil. (it was like 1 am).

Well, time for us to try to recover what we lost.

I'm glad I have personal backups of the Accords, Rules of Engagement, and a few other things that we lost. Otherwise this would be ten times worse.

Speaking of which, I'm on Skype now. Hit me up Myth.

Kuhblam
01-01-2012, 11:27 AM
Glad we've got B,C,D,E and all the other plans after A.

~Kuhblam

Captain Poder
01-01-2012, 11:29 AM
Big Fix: i got added back to LTG in Blue, can an admin please change me back to respected member?

Acid
01-01-2012, 12:06 PM
:(

Metkil5685
01-01-2012, 12:16 PM
Big Fix: i got added back to LTG in Blue, can an admin please change me back to respected member?

Fixed.


Myth and I are working hard to catch everything back up to speed.

GAMEHEEL
01-01-2012, 12:17 PM
1748
Last Night around 2:30 am....

Acid
01-01-2012, 12:21 PM
It's really hard to NOT post in the "What's New?" threads.

Must.....Resist!!!!

Metkil5685
01-01-2012, 12:22 PM
It's really hard to NOT post in the "What's New?" threads.

Must.....Resist!!!!

It's technically not a bump. =D

Gargoyle
01-01-2012, 12:28 PM
How many wanna place bets that this stunt was no other than the "mastermind" of Twitch?

VerbotenDonkey
01-01-2012, 12:56 PM
Did you happen to snatch the IPs Metkil?

Dammit, I had two PMs and now I will never know what they are!!!

If you PMed me after 12:40sh please PM me back =/

silversleek
01-01-2012, 01:17 PM
a compromised admin account? that's... interesting. well, time to start counting admins and see whos missing.

also, i'm pretty sure i have like 8000 vcash from the variety of bets i won.

Daaaah Whoosh
01-01-2012, 02:12 PM
Did you happen to snatch the IPs Metkil?

Dammit, I had two PMs and now I will never know what they are!!!

If you PMed me after 12:40sh please PM me back =/

Did you ever get that picture of a donkey that I sent you? Because I personally think it came out better than the Napoleon one.

Also, if you guys want to check out my comics section, I now have an archive of everything I've done so far. That way, I don't have to remake the three threads I lost, and everything can be in one centralized location.

Blackhawk570
01-01-2012, 02:18 PM
FC Top Ten for October, Gone. ;(

Mythonian
01-01-2012, 02:26 PM
FC Top Ten for October, Gone. ;(Posted.

Vestige
01-01-2012, 02:46 PM
I agree with garg! This is utterly immature. I demand ip traces, an investigation, and names. It is only fair, that we know.

Mythonian
01-01-2012, 02:51 PM
I agree with garg! This is utterly immature. I demand ip traces, an investigation, and names. It is only fair, that we know.

An update will be posted soon. You will have to trust us that we are handling the situation appropriately.

UNLUCKY NUM13ER
01-01-2012, 03:34 PM
I logged on last night and it had mythonian listed as a regular member, and I saw somebody who "retired" logged on as well but it wasnt just anybody....crazy shit.

Oh yea and I agree with Garg, it may just be coincidence that one douche left and this shit happened. But it is a little suspicous.

SuRroundeD By 1
01-01-2012, 03:44 PM
I know everyone is trying to solve the mystery of the hacker right now, and I was just as aggrivated as all of you when I couldn't do anything on the site. However two pages (at least from what I know) of the BLUE recruitment page were lost during the attack, one of those pages held my brothers enlistment request. Which (oddly enough) was listed above Twitches attempt request back into the BLUE army (a second time which was only made to tick MaxDoggy off).

I know your all busy right now but could someone please help me here? Should I just have my brother repost on the thread?

Also, my rank, location, and post count were changed after the hack attack, if that helps at all.

Mythonian
01-01-2012, 03:50 PM
Yes, just have him re-enlist.

Everyone who enlisted or created accounts within the last month will, unfortunately, need to do so again. So, get in contact with everyone that was recruited recently and inform them of this.

Relapsive
01-01-2012, 04:01 PM
Can i have all of my abilities back, because i am no longer LTG and therefore not able to repair the blue army's forums. As well as my name back to relapsive.

Mythonian
01-01-2012, 04:11 PM
Can i have all of my abilities back, because i am no longer LTG and therefore not able to repair the blue army's forums. As well as my name back to relapsive.Done.

bazongaman502
01-01-2012, 04:22 PM
Maybe the person who hacked RaZ account also hacked this one.... never know, anything is possible... and i agree with Garg on the deal with Twitch

Deathhawk
01-01-2012, 04:29 PM
IT WAS CHOPSTIX!!

Just kidding lol

MedeDust
01-01-2012, 04:31 PM
.... Cool. Happy New Year:D

Metkil5685
01-01-2012, 04:34 PM
.... Cool. Happy New Year:D

No kidding.

Relapsive
01-01-2012, 04:35 PM
I have a question what happened to all the donations that were sent in to the website within the last month.

Maxdoggy
01-01-2012, 04:36 PM
New Year, New Website?

Maxdoggy is a sad panda. :(


If I still had super awesome powers, I'd help. But alas, I do not. Lol.

Nocte
01-01-2012, 04:43 PM
So much Admin Work that I did that now needs to be re-done. FML. Bigger FML for Myth and Metkil haha

Mythonian
01-01-2012, 04:45 PM
I have a question what happened to all the donations that were sent in to the website within the last month.Those went to Metkil's paypal account, so those are fine.

Relapsive
01-01-2012, 04:59 PM
Okay just making sure people didn't lose money for no reason thanks for clarifying.

Metkil5685
01-01-2012, 05:06 PM
Okay just making sure people didn't lose money for no reason thanks for clarifying.

Any and all donations for the website are handled off site (PayPal). I wanted to make sure any transaction made related to the website as secure as possible.

Vestige
01-01-2012, 06:53 PM
Eagle needs to have, ALL of his powers back lol.

Nocte
01-01-2012, 08:06 PM
Eagle needs to have, ALL of his powers back lol.

I already have em back, Myth just reset my password. It was changed when everything went back to kinda sorta normal.

xWarPath77x
01-02-2012, 02:03 AM
Great...sad thing is this isn't the first time this has happened...maybe a secondary password or something should be made so that even if the first password is compromised, it may be somehow determined that it has been and it can be stopped before the secondary password (that all of the admins would have) could be compromised. I know there are some forums that do this.


I also need to be moved back to being a REDD member, not a recruit.