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Subject Update on forum hack status
     
Posted by Greg (Dallas) on May 19, 2010 at 9:02 PM
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Message Hi all,

As most of you know we've been attacked and the database
has been compromised with a bunch of spam garbage. I've
fixed the code but it turned out I needed to upgrade some
core things on the server, which I have been working on for
the past week.

Unfortunately those upgrades didn't go so smoothly and I
finally ended up getting things going in a purely manual
fashion. That's why you may have periodically seen the site
either
a) be completely down
b) show the 'we're doing maintenance page' or
c) get odd errors

As of this posting, the system is running on the latest stuff
and it should be able to block the sql attacks we have been
experiencing (purely due to my lazy coding many years ago).

At this point the database itself is NOT fixed. Over the next
few days we will be manually pulling older backed up
information back into the live database. We will attempt to do
this with as little loss of data as possible. However, I haven't
jumped into the details of this yet and there may be some
possibility that data will be lost to fix the problem.

Thanks for hanging in there with us and I'm terribly sorry for
the inconvenience.


     
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