LostKnightsRPG.org

Post by **Avilister** » Thu Sep 03, 2009 11:23 am

LostKnights,

The site has been hacked, it redirected to some Saudi Arabian hacker team's forum. I am working on the fix. Please let me know if you have any concerns.

-Avil

Update 1: 9:33am CST
I am currently restoring the home directory from a backup made on Saturday. This does not, at this time, include the database that has all of the posts in it, just the files that have the code that generate the page itself. We'll see if that helps. If not, I'll restore the whole site from backup and we'll lose anything posted since sometime Saturday.

Update 2: 11:15am CST
After trying unsuccessfully to restore backups to both the main files and to the database, I've called the hosting company. They're restoring the account to the state it was in on Saturday. Provided that it is fixed after that, I'll go through and change the account password to hopefully prevent future problems. We may be looking at an upgrade to a newer version of phpBB in the future, as well. They estimate about 1 hour for restoration to complete. Will update at around 12:30, probably via a post on the restored forums.

Update 3: 12:23pm CST
Everything looks to be back to normal. Restored main page. Note that all posts, PMs, and other additions made since Saturday were lost. I appologize, but I couldn't find a way around that.

You may have gotten an email from them. Do not worry, they used the administrative 'send mail to all members' function to send this email and likely do not actually have your addresses. I will be changing the password on the administrative accounts to help prevent future problems. We may also be looking into an upgrade to phpBB3 or something as well.

Liquidprism · Post by **Liquidprism** » Thu Sep 03, 2009 4:41 pm

Thankyou... and that sucks. Fuckin hackers. Do you know why they did it?

Post by **Avilister** » Thu Sep 03, 2009 4:57 pm

At this point, no, I do not. All I know is that they set up the site to redirect to their own forums, which are in Arabic. I had to restore the backup to get rid of the redirect because I couldn't figure out what they'd changed to do it.

Post by **rydi** » Fri Sep 04, 2009 11:19 am

Yay! The site's still up!

1 day down, eternity to go.

Post by **Avilister** » Fri Sep 04, 2009 1:20 pm

I woke up and wearily checked myself, and was pleased that it was still here.

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