Earlier this evening the site went all pete tong and I was redirected to some advert site. What on earth happened? Was the site a victim of hackers or was it some sort of crazy upgrade?
Earlier this evening the site went all pete tong and I was redirected to some advert site. What on earth happened? Was the site a victim of hackers or was it some sort of crazy upgrade?
"There is no country on the face of the earth to which the principle of citizen-soldiership is so well adapted as our own, for the freedom possessed by Britons is of so general and real a character as to cause the humblest in the land to feel deeply the neccessity of preserving the safety and independence of the nation of which he is a part"
The Volunteer's book of facts 1863
I think something evil our way came, I would like to hear the story though, perhaps the Lord high Admins will tell us about it.
Sadly the place was hacked, check the email you registered on this site with and you might have gotten an email or two with that adf.ly link in them. Glad to see everything is getting back to normal and hopefully no serious damage was done.
Nice job Procyon, fast too.
I did get that email,didnt open it. and if anyone else finds it, don't open it, or you might find some type of nasty surprise. it did not originate with the owner, or staff. If you did open it, what happened?
Yep, I got two emails about it. One had a link, which I did not click on, and the other mentioned MetroWiki.com. I did a Google search on it and immediately knew it was bogus. So, no harm to me. Although, it's been awhile since I have posted here, I had to reset my password. I plan on being a bit more active here now.
Emails:
1st
2nd
The one with the link redirects here through the pay site, it's the same link that covered this site earlier.
There were no attachments so they are clean, same as if sent from here but that link will only help the hacker if you click it.
Just to be safe, everyone should change their passwords.
Last edited by downwithpeace; 05-26-2011 at 11:51 PM. Reason: Change passwords.
Agreed, it is a wise thing to do, so far, no one knows how deep into the system they got. You all might consider changing any other sensitive passwords you use.
Uh... PMs are kinda messed up... It shows a PM that I responded to as unread...
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Got a weird email to...it looked suspicious, so i just deleted it...no harm done.
What you do in life, echoes in eternity!!!
What a bunch of rotters, I hope someone hacks their poxy site.
"There is no country on the face of the earth to which the principle of citizen-soldiership is so well adapted as our own, for the freedom possessed by Britons is of so general and real a character as to cause the humblest in the land to feel deeply the neccessity of preserving the safety and independence of the nation of which he is a part"
The Volunteer's book of facts 1863
Allegedly some folks got odd emails including slander etc.
Is it just me or did the site slow down enormously?
"I just ran out of ammo. I will ram this one. Good bye, we'll meet in Valhalla." - Major Heinrich Ehrler, April 4, 1945
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Sorry about that guys! Whoever did this did a bunch of other things as well such as sending spam. I received a lot of help from my host, so most of the credit should go to them.
No need for you to apologise, one rather hopes some form of Karmic justice is meted out to the rotters who did this to the site.
"There is no country on the face of the earth to which the principle of citizen-soldiership is so well adapted as our own, for the freedom possessed by Britons is of so general and real a character as to cause the humblest in the land to feel deeply the neccessity of preserving the safety and independence of the nation of which he is a part"
The Volunteer's book of facts 1863
Btw the backup is a bit older, so that's why you see unread PMs and also some threads are gone.
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