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2009-08-30: Boards were hacked, and now restored, thanks, bustin98!

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JonLeung:
Last night the forums were hacked.  Unfortunate that we were targeted for whatever reason.



bustin98 was very good about helping me out (doing all of the work, actually) to restore the site.  However, the latest backup was August 8, so unfortunately we lost a few posts.  Not a ton, since the forums were quiet, especially in the past week.



bustin is still working on the migration to better (and likely more secure) forum software, which he says is certainly possible, it just takes some time.  Until then, I'll increase the frequency of my backing-up.



Sorry for the inconvenience, everyone.

JonLeung:
:( Sounds horrible. Do you know what happened?

bustin98:
sql injection. I know. I know. I need to get crackin on moving stuff over to the other forum software.

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Cool beans

marioman:
Good job restoring the forums bustin.  What I can't figure out is why a hacker would want to target this site.  You would think that there would be a lot of more likely targets for such an attack...

magicbay:
I have to agree with marioman.



Why would anyone want to hack the forums of a video game map site??



I had noticed the differences this morning when I wandered over and figured someone hacked the site and waited to see what happened.

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