*DIES*......DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNGGG!!!!!!!.... ..

whoa.....that seriously blows....dang.....*is in awe*....never had any forums i go to be hacked...O_O!!!

The cause of this wasn't a bug in vBulletin. The so-called 'hacker' found out one of the administrator's passwords and got it through the front door...

That's scary..

He probably went FTP. I was hacked via FTP a while back by the past owner of the server I am on. He had a riff with the new owners and nailed a bunch of his old accounts on the server.

LOL, and he calls himself a hacker? :)
I'm sorry to hear about the Rackshack forums, but relieved that vBulletin wasn't the cause, and that the forums are restored. :)

Cary on the previous site he hacked as far as i'm aware he made a script to "steal" the passwords....

The site I *used* to review for was hosted by Rackshack and got nuked off the planet a few weeks ago.

The only admin with root access didn't patch, check for errata or backup the site & db. Bye bye 3 years :(

If Rackshack can get hacked, so can anyone. OpenBSD with SSH all the way for us on our new site and really security paranoid new owners (a trio of us took the leap into ownership and created a new site with forums).

I've ran the same forum almost 14 times over, each time it was hacked by the Owner's (not me:p) enemies...

IMO, if they want in, they get in - Just try and do your best to make sure whatever they do it's hard for them to do it, you have recent backups, and that they don't damage too much:)

Satan

That sucks ... and the term is "cracker" guys :)

Mist, you may want to inform Robert, the HeadSurfer at RS, about the person who did this, as I'm sure they would love to get their hands on this character.