Loss Of Data

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Admin

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Dear Rollitup Users,

We at rollitup would like to extend our sincerest apologies for the recent downtime you have received. An SQL injection attack hit our server early in the morning causing a lot of our posts to be overwritten and the site was then redirected. As a result the complete backup that we have is from 20-2-2012 and this is what we had to restore from. We were able to however re-import all the users that have registered in the past month back into the system. But I regret to inform you that the post and threads are not recoverable.

Although we have removed the lines of code that opened us to this SQL injection it pains me to say that we lost a month out of rollitups history and I only ask that you bear with us while we recuperate.

Now you may be asking why we only had a backup from February. This is a good question, with a site such as ours data is our friend but it can also be our enemy. We do not like to transport our live data through the lines of the internet for just this reason, so when we do backup our data we make sure that we only get the pertinent information from the files before we shut the doors and lock them again. However as you can see this is a double edged sword.

As I write this letter our admin and coding team are putting together safe guards from this happening again.

I would ask that all comments and questions be limited to this thread only rather than being spread throughout he forum.

Once again I do apologize for any inconvenience this has caused you and we hope that you still hold us in high regard and trust.

Best Wishes,
Rollitup
 

darkdestruction420

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This is awful. Not blaming anyone on the site of course. Thanks for fixing it and doing your best. It's the ones who attacked the server who are to blame but it doesnt change the fact this does kind of suck.
 

dura72

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ah well life is all about struggle i suppose. as gary glitter said 'its good to be back'....i dont often quote Gary Glitter......wonder why.
 

Carne Seca

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I wonder if this has anything to do with the recent mod melt down? What was his name? Kevin? Eric? dumb fuck?
 

Admin

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It was not just us, it was a wide spread hack across thousands of vbulletin websites.
 

ImAgIaNtInDaGrOwWoRlD

Active Member
All my pics are gone!?!?!? I have other peoples posts in my latest posts!!! Everything on my account is fucked up!!!! WHEN IS THIS GONNA BE FIXED!?!?!?!? I want to get my account back!!!!!!
 

Soursmokey

Active Member
My grow journal is lost..wtf! How do we know this wont happen again..? Fuck let me roll something up to this!
 
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