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jigfresh

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CharlieBud said:
The ones receiving emails probably had the "allow users to send emails" checked or something. Of course I'm sure the RIU admins are working to discover what personal information may have been compromised as well as revising their data backup and incident response strategy.
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I can't even find that option in my general settings, so not sure what you mean. And the emails they received were not from others' personal email accounts they were from @rollitup.org email accounts. Namely [email protected]... so someone was in the back end.

Again... I'm sure my email accounts are in the hands of bad peeps already from the playstation network getting hacked, and various financial websites that have been compromised as well. Not trying to rile people up... I don't think anything will come of it.

EDIT: Who care's about post counts? There are fucking morons with 10,000 posts, and pot geniuses with 150 posts. That's not how you tell if someone is worth listening to.
 
polyarcturus

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first of all i dont appreciate the which ever mod deleted my post(abusing you powers again k0jin?) as i said the mods had been warned about thier vulnerability. as i am a free time programmer(no expert by any means ) the hacker did a very simple hack and on top of that corrupted the database. once again im going to say this MODS GET ON YOUR SHIT AND START WATCHING, A KID COULD HAVE DONE THAT SIMPLE HACK ATTACK.
 
crazyhazey

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polyarcturus said:
first of all i dont appreciate the which ever mod deleted my post(abusing you powers again k0jin?) as i said the mods had been warned about thier vulnerability. as i am a free time programmer(no expert by any means ) the hacker did a very simple hack and on top of that corrupted the database. once again im going to say this MODS GET ON YOUR SHIT AND START WATCHING, A KID COULD HAVE DONE THAT SIMPLE HACK ATTACK.
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this is why those mods also gave you the option to pm people
 
Johnnyorganic

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polyarcturus said:
first of all i dont appreciate the which ever mod deleted my post(abusing you powers again k0jin?) as i said the mods had been warned about thier vulnerability. as i am a free time programmer(no expert by any means ) the hacker did a very simple hack and on top of that corrupted the database. once again im going to say this MODS GET ON YOUR SHIT AND START WATCHING, A KID COULD HAVE DONE THAT SIMPLE HACK ATTACK.
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This was more than the work of script kiddies.

Anonymous seized the email database and spoofed an email yesterday morning to members ostensibly from [email protected]. Then they corrupted a months worth of data and redirected the posts to some random religious organization.

This was an organized attack and whoever did it had an agenda.

What that agenda is, I cannot say.
 
obijohn

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Over the years most message boards I've frequented had something like this happen. Some people just get off fucking with others.

I don't care about losing some posts, most were just bullshit anyway. ;)
 
calicatt79

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whoever did it managed to fix the thread tools option....???? You can see the words now, strange....and what about the like button, wonder how that got corrupted?? OW
 
polyarcturus

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that could have been prevented. on the other hand if they where up to date with security there is the possibility that more information could have been gleaned from the attacker. annon it doesn't seem their style IMO, their after big corps and money mongers
 
unohu69

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whatever it is, whoever is responsible... none of that really matters now. It is a HUGE pile of suck tho that we lost almost a months worth of data.

I didnt lose any rep points, but lost the comments associated with the recent ones. IM sure the "like" button will make its comeback, it is missed, and was last time they took it down. All recentlt added friends are still there. kinda shitty my "teaching others to roll" has reverted back to "stoner" but really, I am one, so I dont mind.

All in all, it is causing a lot of commotion here, and all the recent comments show it.
 
Admin

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Sorry for the late response guys, I was up till 6am trying to see if we could recover the data out of our search server to no avail. Our search server stores everything in binary monde which we are unable to get back.

As for some of the emails that were sent out, no information was downloaded it was a simple newsletter command the attacker used to send emails to our database. Something to the effect of this $vbulletin->newsletter->send('all); And the posts that were replaced used a Replace Into command which just overwrote everything.

I do apologize that we did loose a month of data and the administrators that work for free on this website have been taking the brunt of it. All I ask is that you bear with us, I noticed alot of other cannabis sites were having the same issue if you need any help finding out where the hacks have taken please send send me a private message and I can walk you through on what to take out of your system.
 
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