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Forum Was Hacked On Jan 21 2009
The CoCreate User Forum was hacked on Jan 21 2009. Anyone attempting to access the forum was greeted by an anti-Isreal/pro-Palestinian message. Thanks to one of our members for notifying me before I had checked the site on that day. I shutdown the site to stop display of the message and was able to restore it within about 2 hours.
Apologies to everyone who attempted to access the forum during that time. I thought our forum was pretty secure. Prior to the hack I had implemented several security recommendations from the vBulletin support team and tried to keep the patches reasonably up to date. But I had not yet installed the latest patch released on Jan 12 before the hack occurred. The forum now has the latest patch. Hopefully it will prevent this from happening again. I will try to install the patches more quickly in the future. I'm still not sure how they managed to do this but sometimes people find clever ways to exploit holes in the vBulletin security. As best I can tell they did not gain admin access to the forum and no data was lost, damaged or compromised.
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Re: Forum Was Hacked On Jan 21 2009
Thanks for your effort John!!!
And for your very fast reaction, too! You are doing a very good admin job! I got notified about that problem by an email.. but when I visited. our URL.. everything was fine ... fine again, as I now know!
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Re: Forum Was Hacked On Jan 21 2009
Wow.......
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