Site was hacked and is now restored

[Skean Dhude]

Apologies to all. The site was hacked yesterday and the source files were compromised.

I've rebuilt the site and restored the files from Backups. It doesn't appear that any posts were lost but if you posted anything recently it may be worth checking.

Took me a while to diagnose the problem as the hosting provider, GoDaddy, was useless. They took 40 minutes to answer for every phone call I had to make to them and they refused to run any diagnostics at all. They just blamed the software. It meant it took me a while to work out what the problem was.

[bigpaul]

sounds like its time to change the host provider if thats their attitude.

[Joe]

Good to see the site back up, it’s nuts why people would want to hack a survival site. I’ve heard of forums being hacked before and the target tends to be the email address and passwords because a lot of people use the same email and password on other sites eg PayPal etc.
Always best to have a dedicated email for forums.

[Straight Shooter]

Good advice joe !

[Mortblanc]

Do you think that if I got in touch with those guys and asked real nice they might send me a list of all the passwords I have forgotten so I can get back into some of my old E-mail and forum accounts?

[iaaems]

In my younger days I seem to recall the phrase "Customer Service".
This does not seem to apply these days - just "give me the money and go away!!".
That appears to be 'progress'.

[bigpaul]

site still keeps going down, there are days I cant get onto it.

[Skean Dhude]

I use different passwords for every site. Plus random password. It's not that I'm paranoid it's just they are out to get me.