Server vulnerability 14 July 2013 - Database restored and passwords reset

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  1. Hilbert Hagedoorn

    Hilbert Hagedoorn Don Vito Corleone Staff Member

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    Hey everybody.

    As some of you know yesterday we had a vulnerability exploit as one of the moderator accounts got hacked. The hacker got access that way towards the ModCP panel and injected a malicious code. The exploit lasted merely an hour but throughout the night more and more became clear about the significance of all this.

    Initially I wanted to leave the database as is, but moments ago I decided to re-install a backup of 4 weeks ago. That way I can be sure that nobody messed with the MySQL tables. It sucks as a couple of weeks content will be lost, but I want to be sure that in the future an exploit wasn't hidden in the Vbulletin templates and MySQL tables.

    Better safe then sorry is my motto here. You again will be prompted to change your password. And if you registered within the last 4 weeks, you'll have to do so again.

    Sorry about this all !
     
  2. dsbig

    dsbig Ancient Guru

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    khaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:bang::bang::bang:
     
  3. Tat3

    Tat3 Ancient Guru

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    Better safe than sorry.
     
  4. dsbig

    dsbig Ancient Guru

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    I been changing my password to everything and then I cant remember what the passwords where. lucky I use roboform to remember them for me.
     

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    cowie Ancient Guru

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    Glad you are on top of it boss
     
  6. Ghosty

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    I had a problem a minute or two ago, and I though my password had been changed, but it looks like it was when you were changing the databases over. All ok now.
     
  7. Hilbert Hagedoorn

    Hilbert Hagedoorn Don Vito Corleone Staff Member

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    I noticed your email ;)
    Please make sure you use new passwords guys, like I stated. Better save than sorry okay ?
     
  8. Ghosty

    Ghosty Ancient Guru

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    Yep, changed my password and email address. Thanks.
     
  9. Wagnard

    Wagnard Ancient Guru

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    Not sure if your restore went well, there seem to be a lot of missing OLD thread.
    For example there was quite a huge and old one in NVIDIA Driver forums talking about HPET. It seems gone now.
    Maybe I misunderstood something?
     
  10. k1net1cs

    k1net1cs Ancient Guru

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    That.
    Emphasis is mine.

    Those old threads were probably only recently being active again in less than a month ago.
    Reverting to a backup that's older than the post that 'revived' the old thread will always make the thread buried again, but not completely lost.
     
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  11. dsbig

    dsbig Ancient Guru

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    yeah... but that thread was over 4 weeks old.


    stuff was lost...........:(
     
  12. Hilbert Hagedoorn

    Hilbert Hagedoorn Don Vito Corleone Staff Member

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    dsbig Ancient Guru

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  14. Hilbert Hagedoorn

    Hilbert Hagedoorn Don Vito Corleone Staff Member

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    Just post some replies and the thread will be bumped up again.
     
  15. k1net1cs

    k1net1cs Ancient Guru

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    Well, damned if Hilbert did, damned if Hilbert didn't.
    If he decided to keep the database untouched and then something like this happened again because of it, you'd probably be the first (again) to complain about having to change your password.
     

  16. dsbig

    dsbig Ancient Guru

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    argg:bang:
     
  17. Hilbert Hagedoorn

    Hilbert Hagedoorn Don Vito Corleone Staff Member

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    Please make a new one, we'll have to start over with some threads I'm afraid. I know this all sucks my friends, but once the threads are created again this will start rolling fast enough.
     
  18. Wagnard

    Wagnard Ancient Guru

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    Ok things are fixed correctly now. It seem I was only able to see Max 9 threads. Now things seems ok here.
    Thanks Hilbert
     
  19. StewieTech

    StewieTech Chuck Norris

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    I understand, better to be safe. I just hope the little **** who did this get some kind of punishment through whatever means avaible!

    edit: it seams the forum has lost pretty much all its content, sections with only one page of threads, is this normal, is it this bad?
     
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    Shame, I was wondering why content was suddenly Lost.
     

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