EXD Up and Running

[SuperGLS]

Well, we lost about 12-14 hours of posts, but I think we should be safe now.

Gotta love them haxzorzeses.

What we believe happened is that someone got a hold of BlueGT's old admin information somehow and logged in as him, then took away my admin status, and banned me.

I don't think it should happen again. If it does I'll be here to fight back again.

Big thanks to everyone for their concern, I love you guys.

[bdiggy]

Good to see you got it straightened out. Didn't know what happened when I tried to log in before. Thought I was being hacked at first.

[evan938]

damnit.

im still drunk james. get here soon

[cclngthr]

A couple people have mentioned that (BlueGT's account being used). Might want to consider temporary limiting unused accounts if they are not used often.

[moonlite5hadow]

good work getting it all worked out!

:Blasting_ to them haxorz

[SuperGLS]

Although it isn't connected, everyone should change their passwords every couple of months for security reasons.

[Pete03GLS]

glad to hear were back to normal. good job. i love you too <3 :D lol

[2002 GLS]

Something was wrong? :eek: I thought i was drunk... lol.

[slyderdai]

yay!!!!!!!!!!!

[Munky]

Good work James, I knew you could get it.

[IshtarfromElant]

you should report the hack infornmation to the authorities...

[Munky]

you should report the hack infornmation to the authorities...

He's way ahead of you. Thanks for your concern, though.

[ricerrx7]

Something was wrong? :eek: I thought i was drunk... lol.

Something was wrong.








And you are drunk...

[Matrixloader]

Good to see everything back to normal. good work james!

[yoodk64]

Gj and good to see EXD is up :clap: :clap:

[Munky]

We shouldn't wait until the site gets hacked to get together in the chat room every now and then. It's cool to have a bunch of you guys in there and not have to refresh every 20 seconds to wait for a post. (It may sound pretty lame, but I know a bunch of you do it too.)

[Pete03GLS]

i enjoyed it. thats also one of the reasons i think we should have a shout box :/ but i guess the majority of the members disagrees. :(

[jalmir]

it's cool to see that the site is back!

damn wizz kids!!

Don't call the police, call the moms, those kids will get the beating of their life! loll

[CRAZIECRACKER]

there was a "hacker" header on the page when i visited...i googled the dudes name...some arab sh*t?...google translated it and i had no idea what was going on with his god and my god and praising a lamb...lol anyway good to see xd back up again!

[Munky]

i enjoyed it. thats also one of the reasons i think we should have a shout box :/ but i guess the majority of the members disagrees. :(

Shoutboxes are different. We have one on CrookedH, and it's cool to have at first, but you get sick of it real fast, and it loses it's spark.

[rusto85]

Whooah! I did miss something here. I just logged in a couple of hrs ago and nothing seemed wrong. During what time frame did this hack occur?

[krodammi]

Did the fix erase all PMs? I had like 4 before I went to work tonight and now they are gone :(

[KeWLKaT]

damn, only night i get drunk and not log in exd gets hacked, ha.

damn, i guess im happy i didnt see it happen!!!

[SuperGLS]

The title of this thread is misleading, the site was never unaccessible and actually people (besides me) were able to post the entire time of the hackage.

[BobMs_wht2k2]

Actually I couldn't access all afternoon yesterday?

[yamaha]

Good to see it back up. Super, if I were a moderator, things like this would never happen, I would just ban everyone.

[Vampyrate]

then how would people post if everyone were banned?

[Cypher]

and if i was a super mod i'd have banned bluegt :cool:

glad its back up and running!

[theWorst]

damn glad to see everything is back up... this happened like 5 minutes before i had to leave last night...

sucks all my posts got deleted.... but its good everything is back up.

i think the arabic stuff is a joke... probably some 16 yr old white kid who thinks it is a clever way to focus attention else where. (no offense to the 16 yr old white kids.)

[Doohickie]

So does anyone know how they got Blue's information? I mean he was in Kazakhstan last we heard.... he wasn't abducted by Kazakhstani Muslim extremists, was he?? :eek:

[Munky]

Super, if I were a moderator, things like this would never happen, I would just ban everyone.

Nice try, but I still don't think he's going to make you a mod. ;)

[2loud2k2xd]

sorry, but thats some funny ish. James got sent to banned camp. :)

glad the sites back to normal.

[southpawboston]

can the admin have access to everyone's login info? was that compromised?

[SuperGLS]

Actually I couldn't access all afternoon yesterday?

I don't know what to tell you about that. It was fine at about 6:30-7:00 last night, then I got back from dinner around 9:30 and it was haxzorzed. If it wasn't working in the afternoon time then it was something on your end.

[cbogg]

:bowdown: :bowdown: :bowdown: :bowdown: :bowdown: :bowdown: :bowdown: :bowdown: :bowdown: :bowdown: :bowdown: :bowdown: WE KNEW YOU COULD DO IT JAMES! I mean really, if they were gonna "hack" it, don't you think if they were going through all that trouble, they would have done more damage than put an annoying banner on the top? Seriously? It's like breaking into a bank and taking that little thing of mints that you're supposed to put in a "donation" for.

[SuperGLS]

Haha. Yeah. Well, unless they hack my host, it's never game over. And because I pay a "ridiculous" (Sean's words) amount for my hosting they were able to give me a reply in about a hours time on a Friday evening, ask which files I wanted backup'd with three choices of backups, and complete the backup in minutes.

All this because I know you guys can't go even a couple hours without EXD.

[Pete03GLS]

damn straight... i start panicking when my EXD page doesn't load the first time i click it... let alone when it got hacked! :D

[ilanpro]

The Hacker was on CrookedH and had sent me a PM
Hi,
I'm new here, how's it going?

"Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future: it transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology; it covers both the natural & spiritual, and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things as a meaningful unity" - Albert Einstein

---
buddha
http://dharma.122mb.com

[robs02elantra]

the site was down for most of the day as well, I tried all afternoon to get on, with no luck.

Did anybody get the real media music to play at the top of the page with the hack information? I tried pressing play, but nothing came out.

[Matrixloader]

the site was down for most of the day as well, I tried all afternoon to get on, with no luck.

Did anybody get the real media music to play at the top of the page with the hack information? I tried pressing play, but nothing came out.

I have real media installed so it played fine, I thought it was going to be some funky hahaha you got hacked type of message but it turned out to be some kind of saudi propaganda convert to islam type crap, all you could hear was arabs yapping and singing some kind aaaaaahhhlllalalasamasalami salam ala sawarababababa tyaallalalalalal type crap. not english friendly at all.

[chrisrm82]

its the terrorists......they're desperate now so theyre targeting americas most vulnerable place.....the internet.....im dead serious......no real evidence but three undersea internet/communication lines have been cut in the past week.....look for yourself http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/02/02/tech/main3782166.shtml

[Matrixloader]

Fox 6 news tonight reports: In other news tonight, a Hyundai forum is attacked by Alkaida terrorist hacker group, but due to a lack of translation from gibberish to english the demands where not met.

[Doohickie]

The Hacker was on CrookedH and had sent me a PM

I got that same PM.... I'm trying to remember if it was on CrookedH.

[hyunelan2]

So, things might not be all good... I just had to approve a post by James, just like I have to approve posts made by members with <5 posts. You might want to look into that?

[SuperGLS]

Was it in the Just bought an 06 Elantra thread?

I posted first, then approved his post, instead of approving his post then replying.

I wondered why ricer and Munky both said the same thing as me after I had explained it so well.

[hyunelan2]

Yes, I think it was. Hopefully that was it, and you aren't stuck on random-newbie mode.

[Munky]

Was it in the Just bought an 06 Elantra thread?

I posted first, then approved his post, instead of approving his post then replying.

I wondered why ricer and Munky both said the same thing as me after I had explained it so well.

Yeah, your post wasn't there when I posted.

[wazntme]

this is really really really goning to sound stupid but i'm anal retentive about this ****

the person who "hacked" the site, he is a cracker

me i am a hacker or programmer ;-)

stupid i know but it's a small diffrence me and others use to seperate ourselves from stupid script kiddies and such

[slyderdai]

I got that same PM.... I'm trying to remember if it was on CrookedH.

I too also got the same Pm On January 11th, 2008 over at crookedH

[Munky]

Don't worry, he has long since been banned.

I had a few members PM me about the issue, and it was quickly taken care of. Thanks for your help guys.

[SuperGLS]

Well, the site is back up for now. We have upgraded to the latest version of vBulletin. You'll notice some things are missing from the Navbar, but I should be able to get those back up soon.

I might have to take the site down again for some more things, but I hope not.

[Munky]

Woot.

I needed my fix..

[Pete03GLS]

is this that v3.8 or w/e u used to talk about? or just some minor update??

[Caliboi]

glad its back up i thought we were down for good. whew!:imnotwort:imnotwort:imnotwort

[SuperGLS]

is this that v3.8 or w/e u used to talk about? or just some minor update??

It's 3.6.8 PL2. The one we were talking about in the Pro Member forum is 3.7.

[KeWLKaT]

Gah! I was going to start cutting myself!

[Pete03GLS]

ahhh i see. well im glad its back up now... i didnt know what to do with myself during the down time! lol :D

[KeWLKaT]

i didnt know what to do with myself during the down time! lol :D

please spare us the details, kthxbai

[Pete03GLS]

lmfao

[BobMs_wht2k2]

And here I thought I got banned again.

[Leviathant]

Apparently some dude from Turkey really wanted to be a pro member, but didn't want to pay for it.

[Munky]

Apparently some dude from Turkey really wanted to be a pro member, but didn't want to pay for it.

Hahaha. What a tool.

[KeWLKaT]

So you got hacked again? WTF?

[SuperGLS]

And here I thought I got banned again.

There's always tomorrow Bob. Hah.

[BobMs_wht2k2]

Dunno there Jimmy. . .I been "good" lately. Although we have had a rather long drought of 'tards lately though. . . . .

[SuperGLS]

Dunno there Jimmy. . .I been "good" lately. Although we have had a rather long drought of 'tards lately though. . . . .

I agree, only kidding.

[Jlivan]

Glad that things are back to normal. Changed my password to be safe

[SuperGLS]

If everyone could change their passwords that would be great. I don't know if it'll help things, but it certainly won't hurt.

[Pete03GLS]

done.