So what the heck happened?

[Paratus]

I'm missing a couple of posts and likes. It looks like the forums are rolled back to yesterday.

Something get corrupted?

 

[Rifter]

yeah everything i had posted today got deleted, not sure WTF is going on. I tried to get on a hour ago and it told me i was permabanned.

 

[Ichinisan]

Said I was banned too. I opened a private browsing session where I wasn't even logged in. It looked like I had the option to ban people while I wasn't even logged in.

 

[Paratus]

Mine said I want able to view anything. Later it had an unscheduled maintenance note.

Then I had to re-login and update my password.

 

[BoomerD]

It's Black Friday...AT Forums went black.

(once you go black, you never go back!)

 

[Paratus]

It's Black Friday...AT Forums went black.

(once you go black, you never go back!)

Whoa dude. It says I'm ignoring you.

 

[Torn Mind]

Some haxorz got in. Methinks.

 

[sandorski]

Hopefully Admin fills us in. I want to hear about all the drama I missed.

 

[Anubis]

https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/unexpected-forum-maintenance-restore-11-25-16.2492697/

 

[sandorski]

https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/unexpected-forum-maintenance-restore-11-25-16.2492697/

Doesn't say much, but it will do I guess.

 

[esquared]

This from jpishgar:

https://forums.anandtech.com/thread...nance-restore-11-25-16.2492697/#post-38595869

 

[IronWing]

I lost three likes. My self esteem is in the toilet right now. I need validation. 🙁

 

[Imp]

What the hell.. posts after ~11pm from last night -- my time zone -- are gone. I said something about facial abuse. Who will hear that joke in context now?

 

[IronWing]

If we're going to lose posts, could we at least lose the ones that forever preclude us from running for public office?

 

[Paratus]

Me

I lost three likes. My self esteem is in the toilet right now. I need validation. 🙁

too

 

[Newbian]

If we're going to lose posts, could we at least lose the ones that forever preclude us from running for public office?

The only problem is this no longer applies now it seems. 😛

 

[IronWing]

Thanks guys, I'm feeling better already.

 

[master_shake_]

My last post was about that awful red theme then there was a few about missing forums then the crash.

Then I tried to unban mayne lol.

 

[IronWing]

I saw that Mayne was banned but I didn't see an option to unban him. I guess if I had logged out I would have seen that.

 

[Paratus]

My last post was about that awful red theme then there was a few about missing forums then the crash.

Then I tried to unban mayne lol.

Mine was one of my signature global warming takedowns of bshole in P&N.

Sigh.

 

[Paratus]

Dp

 

[Red Squirrel]

Yeah think they got hacked, some exploit seems to have given the "guest" account ban access. At least that's my guess.

Now question is, is the exploit fixed, and should we change our passwords, or wait.

Good news is we know the backups work. 😛

 

[dawp]

mine was all black and red, told me I didn't didn't have access and wasn't authorized for the action i was attempting.

 

[Chaotic42]

Heh, yeah, I saw a ton of spam in the New Posts area and it said there were ~350,000 members on the forums.

 

[Imp]

If we're going to lose posts, could we at least lose the ones that forever preclude us from running for public office?

You mean like the one where we were betting on how many people would die and be injured on Black Friday? I don't want to live in a country that doesn't think highly of betting on the misfortune of others.