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Title: BVC Forum Hacked Report
Post by: Loveheart on September 25, 2011, 06:22:34 AM

Hello Bill

I have try to go to the bvc forum but it say its HACKED
Hope you get your forum back !!!

Greetings Loveheart

Title: BVC Forum Hacked Report
Post by: Brian H on September 25, 2011, 06:38:28 AM

Split from original thread for clarity.

Confirmed. A nasty message indicating I was hacked appears on the BVC Forums.

Title: Re: BVC Forum Hacked Report
Post by: HA Dave on September 25, 2011, 12:08:13 PM

It seems only part of Bill's Site is down. The BVC description, download, and purchase area (http://www.wgjohns.com/bvc.htm) is OK. The forum area however has been hacked.

Title: Re: BVC Forum Hacked Report
Post by: Knightrider on September 25, 2011, 12:41:36 PM

I spoke to -Bill- about an hour ago.  He's looking into it, however, the data in the forum may be compromised.  We might have to reconstruct from the wayback machine.

Title: Re: BVC Forum Hacked Report
Post by: Brian H on September 25, 2011, 12:54:31 PM

I am sorry it happened.
Hopefully it was caught before too many folks accessed it.
I did notice that the IE loading spinning ball was there, while I was on the hacked site.
Didn't get any firewall or spyware warnings, but I didn't stick around long.

Title: Re: BVC Forum Hacked Report
Post by: Knightrider on September 25, 2011, 01:00:34 PM

it re-sized and repositioned (put into motion) my FireFox page.  I didn't want to stick around long either.

Title: Re: BVC Forum Hacked Report
Post by: Knightrider on September 25, 2011, 06:40:44 PM

is fixed

Title: Re: BVC Forum Hacked Report
Post by: HA Dave on September 25, 2011, 08:09:31 PM

Quote from: Knightrider on September 25, 2011, 06:40:44 PM

is fixed

And it looks like all the data is there as well.

Title: Re: BVC Forum Hacked Report
Post by: Loveheart on September 26, 2011, 03:35:36 AM

Great that all is Fix. #:)
And yes i also see all data is back.

 :)% :)% :)% :)%

Title: Re: BVC Forum Hacked Report
Post by: -Bill- (of wgjohns.com) on September 28, 2011, 01:02:26 AM

Yeah.  It appears someone actually hacked my hosting provider and got into almost all of their servers.  Something like 700,000 websites were defaced.  With a the hosting company's and my backups, everything should be back to normal now.

 >!

Title: Re: BVC Forum Hacked Report
Post by: Brian H on September 28, 2011, 06:40:57 AM

Wow a major hack.
I am glad all has been restored.

Title: Re: BVC Forum Hacked Report
Post by: HA Dave on September 28, 2011, 11:24:48 AM

Quote from: -Bill- (of wgjohns.com) on September 28, 2011, 01:02:26 AM

...... Something like 700,000 websites were defaced. 

Should be nice to know it wasn't just YOU... the hackers decided to screw with. Sorry your host got hit.... glad the outage was so brief. 

Title: Re: BVC Forum Hacked Report
Post by: Tuicemen on September 28, 2011, 11:51:11 AM

Nice to see you back up Bill!
Also glad it wasn't an attack targeted at your site specifically.

Title: Re: BVC Forum Hacked Report
Post by: Loveheart on September 28, 2011, 06:14:48 PM

We all are very happy that bill is back again and so fast  #:) #:) #:)

Title: Re: BVC Forum Hacked Report
Post by: IPS on September 29, 2011, 07:47:55 AM

Happy to hear that all's well. Congrats.

IPS