Don't know if anybody cares here but I assume there's some of us who also visit Hard Forums(HardOCP). Anyway, Hard forum was hacked a few days ago. Kyle was honest and to the point and had this to say.
"The forums were hacked.
We have been hacked three times in 13 years. We are not sure the motivation this time, but it was not "malicious." In the past it has been spammers/phishers using our resources to send out their mails. This time, like before, nothing was damaged, there were simply processes running that were invisible to us and using all the box's resources. Box is a dual Quad Xeon with 16GB of RAM. It took them at least 3 days to get in (from what we can see in the logs), and these guys were very very slick. Have to give them kudos on their talents. I am sure they are making plenty of money with their skill set.
From our past experience with this, we have learned that it is best to start from ground zero in the box that was compromised. So we are doing a full OS and vBulletin install. It has been a couple of years since we did this so there are some upgrades to be made as well.
We have put a measure in place to safeguard us from downtime like this in the future. Sorry for the inconvenience."
"The forums were hacked.
We have been hacked three times in 13 years. We are not sure the motivation this time, but it was not "malicious." In the past it has been spammers/phishers using our resources to send out their mails. This time, like before, nothing was damaged, there were simply processes running that were invisible to us and using all the box's resources. Box is a dual Quad Xeon with 16GB of RAM. It took them at least 3 days to get in (from what we can see in the logs), and these guys were very very slick. Have to give them kudos on their talents. I am sure they are making plenty of money with their skill set.
From our past experience with this, we have learned that it is best to start from ground zero in the box that was compromised. So we are doing a full OS and vBulletin install. It has been a couple of years since we did this so there are some upgrades to be made as well.
We have put a measure in place to safeguard us from downtime like this in the future. Sorry for the inconvenience."
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