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[Deleted member 25872]

Forum Promotion has been down all today; it's just come back up! :sad:

 

[Page]

Forum Promotion has been down all today; it's just come back up! :sad:

I know, we are getting sick of it, Time for them to get paid protection

 

[Finn]

Forum Promotion has been down all today; it's just come back up! :sad:

Changes to fix this are being actively worked on, hopefully they are successful. :great:

 

[mav3n]

Forum Promotion has been down all today; it's just come back up! :sad:

Changes to fix this are being actively worked on, hopefully they are successful. :great:

That's like the 3rd time we have been told that and yet again, FP is being DDoSd and is offline for most of the day lul :lol: The unreliability of FP is laughable at best.

 

[MasterA]

I'm deeply concerned about the data breach that happened. Can you please address this?

My understanding is that a full backup of the DB was accidentally made publicly available when MasterA switched hosts. Anyone could have downloaded it during that time, although since the server was being DDoSed and it's a very large file, there's no guarantee that anyone got all of it. That file will probably contain the email address of every FP member and an encrypted version of their password. The passwords cannot be decrypted, but a brute force attack can be employed against them. Current technology could probably let a properly equipped hacker decrypt anywhere between a few passwords a day to one every few days. It's unlikely that someone will be able to decrypt all of them in a reasonable span of time, but it's also possible for a targeted attack to be launched against some users. I recommend everyone change their passwords on external sites if it was identical to your FP password.

^ Note that I may be incorrect on some details as I'm not staff and was not staff when the screwup occurred.

This is some good information. We have done a mass password reset so your account on Forum Promotion is safe. However, if you use the same password on other websites, you should change it.

Thanks for letting us know and force changing the passwords so that we can change them for sure.

Maybe make it more obvious that this is the reason why? Also as a FYI your email went to my junk mail box on GMail.

Can you mark the email as "not spam"? It should then go to your inbox.

Thanks.

 

[Deleted member 29704]

The Downtime issues should not happen again due to our new Host :great:

 

[gamestoenjoy]

Good luck @Matt

 

[Allenafaith]

Thanks for letting us know and force changing the passwords so that we can change them for sure.

Maybe make it more obvious that this is the reason why? Also as a FYI your email went to my junk mail box on GMail.

We're not exactly sure why someone decided to attack FP, probably just someone that has personal issues or just a random attack.

The email went to your spam because there's an issue with our email server, that's why some people probably didn't get an email at all. Their email rejected it. The administrators are going to be looking into this soon. 🙂

 

[cpvr]

Thanks for letting us know and force changing the passwords so that we can change them for sure.

Maybe make it more obvious that this is the reason why? Also as a FYI your email went to my junk mail box on GMail.

We're not exactly sure why someone decided to attack FP, probably just someone that has personal issues or just a random attack.

The email went to your spam because there's an issue with our email server, that's why some people probably didn't get an email at all. Their email rejected it. The administrators are going to be looking into this soon. 🙂

Does your server have a built in firewall?

 

[Allenafaith]

Thanks for letting us know and force changing the passwords so that we can change them for sure.

Maybe make it more obvious that this is the reason why? Also as a FYI your email went to my junk mail box on GMail.

We're not exactly sure why someone decided to attack FP, probably just someone that has personal issues or just a random attack.

The email went to your spam because there's an issue with our email server, that's why some people probably didn't get an email at all. Their email rejected it. The administrators are going to be looking into this soon. 🙂

Does your server have a built in firewall?

I am not sure as I don't have access to it. I'm sure an admin would be able to answer that question, though. 🙂

 

[MasterA]

Thanks for letting us know and force changing the passwords so that we can change them for sure.

Maybe make it more obvious that this is the reason why? Also as a FYI your email went to my junk mail box on GMail.

We're not exactly sure why someone decided to attack FP, probably just someone that has personal issues or just a random attack.

The email went to your spam because there's an issue with our email server, that's why some people probably didn't get an email at all. Their email rejected it. The administrators are going to be looking into this soon. 🙂

Does your server have a built in firewall?

Yes, our servers have a built in firewall.