I think my forums been hacked!

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    mattonline, Dec 27, 2007 IP
  2. HuggyStudios

    HuggyStudios Well-Known Member

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    Maybe I have heard about this happening on other forums, best to check with vbulliten.com
     
    HuggyStudios, Dec 27, 2007 IP
  3. n-james

    n-james Well-Known Member

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    Its probably the counters updating from when you deleted that top poster since, you have been getting database errors on the forum according to some of the members as well as activity for today and yesterday plus the others still remaining.

    Otherwise i'd contact vB like HuggyStudios suggested.
     
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  4. mattonline

    mattonline Active Member

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    i dont think its the rssfeed, because that 'bot' only posted in the news section on the forum, and posts from all accross the board have been removed,
     
    mattonline, Dec 27, 2007 IP
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    n-james Well-Known Member

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    Have you got backups? If so just fuse them together.

    Theres a guide how to do it here: http://www.everymanhosting.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=42
     
    n-james, Dec 27, 2007 IP
  6. mattonline

    mattonline Active Member

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    yes i will have to use them together, going to be tricky
     
    mattonline, Dec 27, 2007 IP
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    Lpspider Well-Known Member

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    You don't have it set to autoprune, do you?
     
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    mattonline Active Member

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    no the posts were actually deleted i looked at the moderation logs
     
    mattonline, Dec 28, 2007 IP
  9. Shazz

    Shazz Prominent Member

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    It could be a number of things, what vBulletin version are you on? Do you trust your staff that you have on admins/mods?
     
    Shazz, Dec 28, 2007 IP
  10. mattonline

    mattonline Active Member

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    i have no staff on the forum im the only one who moderates it, but theres a few people with access to moderation, going to check there IPs now
     
    mattonline, Dec 28, 2007 IP
  11. mattonline

    mattonline Active Member

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    The member on my forum who deleted all the posts was NeeJam
     
    mattonline, Dec 28, 2007 IP
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    Shazz Prominent Member

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    If your the only admin, then it has to be one of your mods or unlikely someone that knows your password and got into the admincp and messed around. If that was the case, only threads and posts lost with that would be lucky. But since that is the only thing gone it seems it would be a bad mod :mad:
     
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    mattonline Active Member

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    Shazz Prominent Member

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    Agent_Dweeb Peon

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    Then get your backups up and ban neejam
     
    Agent_Dweeb, Dec 28, 2007 IP
  16. mattonline

    mattonline Active Member

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    neejam is banned, but i need to merge the SQL together because i'll have lost some posts

    I tracked it down by going through the admincp logs
     
    mattonline, Dec 28, 2007 IP
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    So you modded neejam I suppose?
     
    Shazz, Dec 28, 2007 IP
  18. mattonline

    mattonline Active Member

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    yes i remember he help me with something a while back and i forgot to remove mod access
     
    mattonline, Dec 28, 2007 IP