Yep all clear! Sorry everybirdy! I logged in yesterday and got a bit of a shock myself! I had my fingers crossed we didnt loose everything. Imran your the champ! Thankyou.
"Jibby aka Gilbert" Indian Ringneck 13 years"Charlie" Rex Rabbit 1 year
Is there any way we can find out what the hack involved?
ie; what kind of hack was it? Was it a simple address hijack? Or did they gain assess to any core member lists / emails and possibly logins?
Just curious about personal forum identity and im sure there are several members here who use similar usernames / passwords on their emails accounts etc...
Its a relatively minor defacing group of "hackers" if you want to call them that.
They operate out of crewz.org
They mainly deface websites to earn "credit" I guess, simply doing mediocre defacements to disrupt websites... main trend seems to be christian based websites, though they will attack other popular forums hosted by places running vulnerabilities or new exploitable techniques.
as the sql database is till intact all they seem to be doing is a redirect, also evident in the forum starts to load before being moved to the other sites.
what version of phpbb are you running, and have you added the latest security patches. now they now they can do this site they will be back time after time.
Oh No, Not again but glad all is ok again, I have been too scared to log in just in case it was someone trying to hack my computer. Hope it doesn't happen again.