As many of you may have realized the site was hacked sometime in the past few days. DK has been working hard all day to fix the problem and it was fixed sooner than possible. I know you have many questions and we will try and answer them to the best of our abilities. Please read this entire post and all additional posts before asking anything. I do not want to repeat all of this again.
First of all for those of you who have been living on Mars and have no idea what I am talking about a few days ago this forum was hacked by a hacker. He went by the alias TopSat13. When you came to the site you saw a message generated by the hacker. Now we know what was said in his message about all our information being gone and I will get to that later. Larien and I both accessed the site trying to perhaps do something through the admincp this did not work. We contacted DK who then had our web host use an old backup to restore the site.
For those of you that accessed the site during this time I urge you to check your computers. Run virus scans, spyware scans, and look for any programs on your computer you do not recognize. We do not want the hacker to somehow be able to hack your computer because you accessed the site.
As you can see not all of the posts are gone. We used a backup to restore the site to an earlier date. So
to the hacker. We will triumph. We are the Energizer Bunny. We keep going and going and going.
Next order of business. We realized that some of you may be missing posts. We had two options for restore dates, Nov. 22 and Nov. 18. After much consideration we chose the 18th. Larien and myself were unsure of when the hacker had accessed the site and done what he did. We want to restore the site before the changes occurred. Now you may think well why didn't you just restore it to the 18th and if that wasn't any good change it to the 22nd? Well that is a good question and I will explain. When DK got down on his hands and knees and begged our web host provider to use their backup to restore the site he was told their was a $150 fee. Now then it took him an hour to get this fee waved, but it was a one time only offer. None of the admins could currently afford to pay the $150 if this didn't work. So we chose the earlier date that we knew the site was unaffected on. We apologize for any lost posts but this was the best option to get the site operational.
Your next question maybe how are we going to keep this from happening again? We are currently updating our
vbseo software. DK is also going to add some more security measures. It is probably a good idea for all of you to change your passwords as well. Also we are purging from the database any accounts that are currently not in use. If you have an account you fear maybe in danger of being deleted please let me or Larien know.
As of now I have created a new group on facebook called Fans of DKD. I suggest all of you join. The admins will post things there if the site goes down or something happens. I really need a good picture to put on there. So if someone wants to design something....be my guest.
As for the hacker.....we can only pray he gets what is coming to him. I vote for him dying in a fire, slowly and painfully. But just have his computers explode when he touches them would work too.
Please ask us any questions you might have. We will tolerate them just this once.
