2012-02-11: Hacking attack on WipEoutZone

[Darkdrium777]

Change your passwords. Don't even ask. Just do it for your own sake.

[Hellfire_WZ]

If ANY site has been the victim of a hack, then the possibility exists that passwords were compromised. Any password you use for a service that suffers an intrusion should be changed as a matter of course. Rob made that clear in the first post.

As for sending out mass emails, the difference between what happened with Sony and here is that the site was practically destroyed as a result of this intrusion. Despite the fact we're up and running again, there are still several basic functions that do not work. The best we could do was to keep you all informed via the Facebook group, and then via the announcements forum when we were back up.

[Rapier Racer]

Great to see the site back up and running, didnt know what had happened when I clicked my bookmark and it took me to facebook figured it out pretty quickly though even without access to the group. Aweseome to see the site back up and running nice work rob. All I seem to be seeing these days is news on sites being hacked, its usually gaming sites big money making or corporate sites for games or developers etc whats with all the attacks on the gaming community?

[lanceurdehache]

I am thinking for the inactive users on the forum that dont have facebook, they must know that the site got hacked and changed their password on other service/website if they are same

[Flint Fandango]

A big thanks to Rob for reactivating the forum and the advice regarding the password!

[infoxicated]

Yes.

Change passwords.

They're encrypted, but I imagine any hacker worth their salt can decrypt a password hash if they got their hands on one.

Interestingly, though, this guy created a couple of accounts and then got locked out of them by entering the password wrong five times. Happens to the best of us - even the l33t!

This is additional free advice, seeing as I'm on holiday!

[MyNameIsBom]

I was too slow!!

one of my emails locked me out...... at least it wasnt my main email account :/
so thats a good thing im glad i ditched that email years ago, it had no info on it anyway so im not that bothered.

Facebook and everything else remains intact/password all changed.

[TarquinFarqhuar]

Good job in getting things sorted, well done you guys.

[Colonel]

Interestingly, though, this guy created a couple of accounts and then got locked out of them by entering the password wrong five times.

This really made me chuckle

[AG-SYSTEMS]

I was gettin' worried there. Thanks for fixing the site.

[Archon]

Home sweet home. Hallelujah.

[trackripper]

Thank you Rob, great job getting the site back up intact

[infoxicated]

You're welcome. I was just a bit sad that I couldn't rescue the forum database and had to revert it, but I figured it was more important to get the site back online than to spend weeks picking through the debris.

[F.E.I.S.A.R]

Bad news... That guy defaced the main site...again.

[Darkdrium777]

Lol man.
Dude, whoever you are you know you can send him an e-mail instead of doing this. It's not exactly very hard to find it and I think he'd appreciate it more. He's on vacation at the moment, so it's not like he had the time to do much.
Please?

[F.E.I.S.A.R]

"Send an email instead of doing this"?

Ok,I'm very lost...

I can only presume it is for the hacker.

[Darkdrium777]

Yes, of course.

[jesse9705]

Someone should try to get his IP address and simply report him for hacking, vunerealbilitys or not.

[Hellfire_WZ]

Rob's been informed

[stin]

I wish this c*** would leave us alone.

stevie