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Community Forums => General Discussion => Topic started by: deano_ue on December 09, 2013, 12:52:48 AM

Title: The site has been hacked
Post by: deano_ue on December 09, 2013, 12:52:48 AM
Ok guys not sure who's seeing this but the main entry page seems to have been hacked by some random group. The boards seem to be ok you can get to them directly but I'm not sure everyone knows this.

Just be carefully and scan your computers just to be safe.
Title: Re: The site has been hacked
Post by: catwhowalksbyhimself on December 09, 2013, 01:08:36 AM
Best I can tell, it's a hacking group that hacks sites as a pranks.  Best I can tell, they don't seem to do much in the way of damaging things or putting in viruses, but I can't be 100% sure of that. 

EDIT:  I just peeked at the source.  Unless I missed something, it's a completely harmless webpage.  I can find no sign of any malicious code.
Title: Re: The site has been hacked
Post by: Glitch Girl on December 09, 2013, 03:46:51 AM
aaaaand I removed it.  Gonna see about changing our passwords as soon as I'm done here.

The good news is, they didn't delete anything, they just added their own replacement index page.  Easily fixed.

Title: Re: The site has been hacked
Post by: catwhowalksbyhimself on December 09, 2013, 03:53:20 AM
Yeah, I checked them out--their replacement index contained multiple twitter accounts and handles after all--and they appear to be more mischeivous then malicious.  Annoying, but ultimately harmless.
Title: Re: The site has been hacked
Post by: BentonGrey on December 09, 2013, 04:04:10 AM
Gah!  Well, at least they don't seem to have done any real harm.  What's the point of that kind of thing?  Ohh well.
Title: Re: The site has been hacked
Post by: XStream on December 09, 2013, 04:13:43 AM
From what I could see on their Twitter page they just do it to prove they can. Even when they lock people out they set the username to Admin and password to their sites name.

From what I could see they just keep moving. Seems pointless.
Title: Re: The site has been hacked
Post by: Glitch Girl on December 09, 2013, 04:17:30 AM
I'm just glad it wasn't a destructive hack.  This was something I could fix myself.