What happened?

[Iron Yeoman]

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?

[tankgeezer]

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.

[downwithpeace]

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.

[tankgeezer]

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?

[The Commander]

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.

[downwithpeace]

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?

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.

[tankgeezer]

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.

[Churchill]

Uh... PMs are kinda messed up... It shows a PM that I responded to as unread...

[tankgeezer]

Then read it again,,,,

[VonWeyer]

Got a weird email to...it looked suspicious, so i just deleted it...no harm done.

[Iron Yeoman]

What a bunch of rotters, I hope someone hacks their poxy site.

[flamethrowerguy]

Allegedly some folks got odd emails including slander etc.
Is it just me or did the site slow down enormously?

[Procyon]

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.

[Iron Yeoman]

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.

[Procyon]

Btw the backup is a bit older, so that's why you see unread PMs and also some threads are gone.