What's happened? Why has the forum changed?

[Mark]

In the early hours of 9th Sept we had a major attack on the forums which ended up with them being hacked, the hack compromised the files which are used to serve the forums and got into the database too.

A migration to a fresh set of files didn't work because the hack was in the database, so the only way to be 100% sure of stripping out the compromised code was to migrate to a completely different forum system where they couldn't follow.

Hence we've moved to phpBB; it may be that we eventually go back to vBulletin using version 5, or we may just stick with phpBB as it's a good forum system.

The site is very much work in progress, lots of stuff isn't working properly, including the pickems which may take a while to get back on. However I'd rather open up the forums as soon as possible rather than leave them closed until everything is 100% ready.

[donKey jote]

sheesh

hope it's only half as complicated as it sounds !

[Mark]

Since changing we're getting battered to death with spam . I've had to set new user registrations to have to be approved by admin.

[Mark]

Tapatalk access isn't working just now.

[Tazio]

Hackers; Damn their eternal souls :angyfire:

[rallye-vid]

Bad news, f0cking script kiddies...

[AndyL]

I like the change. For the first time in a while, the forum works properly without javascript again!

Were any malicious files uploaded that users might have been exposed to?

[donKey jote]

Tapatalk access isn't working just now.

and where's my flag gone?

[Mark]

Turns out I actually have a backup. Doh. Might restore to that instead. Means losing a weekends posts

[steveaki13]

Wow. I wondered what had happened.

I have to say I quite like this new layout. It seems to work better with my new laptop from a purely selfish point of view.

Anyway these hackers are nasty. I am a member of a Barca Fans forum and they hacked that recently.

Hope all is OK again now.