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914world was hacked ... |
SirAndy |
Nov 27 2022, 04:38 PM
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Resident German Group: Admin Posts: 41,864 Joined: 21-January 03 From: Oakland, Kalifornia Member No.: 179 Region Association: Northern California |
We were hacked on Sunday 11/13
The attackers hacked one of the admin accounts and gained access to the administrative part of the site. They went on to change passwords for several user accounts and started impersonating users, posting for sale Ads in the classified section asking people to pay via Zelle or Venmo. The affected user accounts are: ClayPerrine Freezin 914 (The name was briefly changed to "Great") Ansbacher dlee6204 If you responded to any of those fake Ads and sent money through those services you need to contest those charges asap. The hackers then went on to delete most of the forums on 914world. Luckily i was online at the time and was able to shut down the server before they could wipe everything completely. Due to the nature of how the data was deleted i couldn't simply revert to a previous backup of our database. I had to start with our latest backup and manually merge in data from the corrupted/hacked database. While this has taken pretty much exactly 2 weeks (i do have a day job) we were also lucky. Because of the way the data was deleted i was actually able to recover almost everything with very little loss (less than a handful of threads). There are still quite a few threads that need to be moved to their respective forums and i'm going to need some help from the members to make sure everything gets moved to its correct location. I created a "Recover" forum that currently holds all those orphaned threads that need to be moved somewhere. http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?showforum=86 It would be helpful if you could look thorough there and point at any threads you recognize and let me know where they need to be moved to. NOTE We do *not* store your password (never have). There is no way the hackers could have gotten your password, even with admin access. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/type.gif) |
SirAndy |
Nov 27 2022, 04:44 PM
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Resident German Group: Admin Posts: 41,864 Joined: 21-January 03 From: Oakland, Kalifornia Member No.: 179 Region Association: Northern California |
Almost forgot:
- If you encounter anything odd on the site or find a thread in a forum where it doesn't belong, please let me know here - If you can't log in, contact me over on Pelican: Pelican Parts Forums (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif) |
Txbentleyboy |
Nov 29 2022, 10:17 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 76 Joined: 15-October 16 From: Davidson County, NC, USA Member No.: 20,498 Region Association: MidAtlantic Region |
Almost forgot: - If you encounter anything odd on the site or find a thread in a forum where it doesn't belong, please let me know here - If you can't log in, contact me over on Pelican: Pelican Parts Forums (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif) Thank you for all of your efforts! |
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