So My Forum Was Hacked

[Doug]

Well, I had all but forgotten about my Halo 2 Hints site. I actually going to cancel the hosting soon but I checked it the other day and it seems the forum was hacked. There was hardly any activity anyway but I just don't understand the point. Did thay hack it just to show they could? It's people like that that really piss me off.

[Ben]

People do it because it is either a bustling community and they want to bring it down or they just don't like the place

[Masetek]

define "hacked" what did they do?

[Doug]

They messed everything up. If you want to check it out just go to www.halo2hints.com and click on the forum thing. Be careful though, I have a download accelerator that asks me whenever something tries to download and something tries to download when I look at the forum.

[MarkB]

PHPBB forums (especially ones left dormant) are prone to hacking attempts, due to a security flaw (which was patched months ago, but older installations are still being targetted).

[Chris]

phpbb, the most hacked software on the internet.

Its not really hacking either. Someone who initially finds the security flaw could be called a hacker, the people who read how to do it on some hacker board are just script kiddies.

[Cutter]

Did you have the latest version installed?

I had a phpBB I started over a year ago which I believed was hacked. It was a low activity board so I didn't check it often. Logged in one day and it was messed up.

I back up my databases regularly now.

[Doug]

Yea, this version is about a year old. That's exactly what happened to this one, it's all messed up. It isn't really any major loss or anything, I just don't understand the fun in doing that to someone.