has your forum ever been hacked?

[The Reverend]

has your forum ever been hacked? if so, did you get it back in the end? was there legal action taken?
none of my forums have ever been hacked :cheer:

 

[User500]

has your forum ever been hacked? if so, did you get it back in the end? was there legal action taken?
none of my forums have ever been hacked :cheer:

I have never owned a forum! But working on one at the moment!

I think very big forums will get hacked,

 

[AnAccount]

Our old Chatting Time database was hacked twice last year. Once in January and once in March. The second time was what made me give up owning a forum for a while. We started up again in August with an all new database and it's been smooth sailing since! Also, it's not just big forums that get hacked... any forum of any size can get hacked and for various reasons. No legal actions were taken in any of last year's cases..

 

[Joshua Farrell]

No, none of the forums I have ever owned have been hacked. Though, I might have received one or two threats when I first started running my own forums.

 

[Zuinag]

I've been quite lucky. I've never been part of a forum that was hacked. 🙂

 

[Nebulous]

I have twice (2 different forums).. I always keep current backups so whatever damage done is minimal to non-existent after I come around.

 

[AquaTeen]

Once a few years ago. I was able to crack right into it and stop it long before any damage was done. A co-admin had his account compromised and all admin rights were taken away from the rest of us. I had to open the database to create a new super user and remove rights from the hacked admin.

 

[Fait]

I have had threats and Attempts but they gave up and never succeeded

 

[kavin]

I have had threats and Attempts but they gave up and never succeeded

In your Forumotion forum or this new one?

 

[Fait]

When we was on Forumotion one reason i ask you to move us more secuity

 

[AnAccount]

When we was on Forumotion one reason i ask you to move us more secuity

I am surprised they didn't succeed. I can't count how many times I've heard Forumotion users saying, "My site got hacked last night!" Especially during the summer months, when low-life kids seem to have nothing better or constructive to do with their time than ruin other people's hard work! So I actually find that kind of weird that your site's attempts never succeeded. Or was this before Forumotion became so lax about security it wasn't even funny?

 

[Fait]

Yeah forumotion should wisen up on secuity everyday i there will be a
support topic My forum been hacked. and They sort of did Succeed but all they can do is Minor damage

 

[Magik]

A site I used to run for its owner (hosting) has been hacked about 3 times since its inception in 05, but it was only hacked once while i visited it, dunno about from when we parted ways though.

 

[AnAccount]

Yeah forumotion should wisen up on secuity everyday i there will be a
support topic My forum been hacked. and They sort of did Succeed but all they can do is Minor damage

Well, without a Cpanel, the most a person can do when hacking a Forumotion hosted site is just minor damage, usually easily repairable. As I've also heard that when people have had their sites hacked on that host, usually (unless the hacker was stupid enough to delete the whole database!) a person can get their site back to normal within 2 days tops. And this is how all free hosts are. Usually without Cpanel, all you can do is minor damage, as you don't have enough tools completely to totally destroy a forum. The worst you can probably do is just delete the entire database and make it so the owner has to start all over again. That's probably the worst you can do.

 

[Fait]

Forumotion runs all forums on one database so if the hacker Deleted there Database the whole service would go Down

 

[Branden]

Forumotion runs all forums on one database so if the hacker Deleted there Database the whole service would go Down

Which might just make me laugh a little bit.

 

[Fait]

Whats funny about this?

 

[Branden]

Whats funny about this?

Forumotion is stupid enough to host all of the websites on one database, they therefor deserve to lose all of their customers.

I recommended who ever is a member of Forumotion, you switch off of them. They are a terrible forum host.

Not to say anything bad. I better stop before I do. Lets just say I have had bad experiences with them.

 

[Fait]

All free hosts are the same ive had bad experience with them myself still consedering if i should start my new forum with them need to start somewhere

 

[Branden]

I will host you. They are the worst thing that has ever been created.

I will charge you 100FP for hosting. That is paid each month.

I don't want to see you on garbage.

I will reply with my response tomorrow. Right now I am about to go out to the lake 😀