This is really ridiculous.

First off: It is not the community's fault that your board got defaced.

Second: It was not necessarily someone in the community who defaced your board.

Third: No matter how much you "trust the community" you posted your details on a board that was accessible not only to "the community" but also the entire internet.

If you had posted your request on a board that was only open to registered or registered+licensed users, then your complaints would have merit. But in all likelyhood the person who stole your details was just a random person strolling across the internet who may or may not have had a vbulletin.org account or a valid vbulletin license.

I always find it funny that when the topic comes to an end, someone always has to have their say.

At the end of the day, vbulletin.org requires you to validate your licence before downloading any hacks / mods so I thought it was safe enough for someone to help me.

Instead of people actually offering to help me with my coding problem, I get people slagging me off instead.

Attilitus, why don't you stop wasting your time posting pointless messages in threads that have come to an end and actually browse the boards looking for people to help and post in topics that actually mean something.

I don't see you posting in my thread that asks for help, yet you have to have your say on this one!

Hey man... don't be a jerk.

I'm not being a jerk, all I'm saying is that people have said the same things as what you said, so there really is no need to repeat. If you read the posts that I made, I said that I am aware that I made a mistake.

Don't slate me for a mistake. I've already admitted it, no need to keep rubbing it in!

Very well. I didn't mean to "rub it in" I'm just killing time by posting in a topic while waiting for one of my questions to be answered...

Im sorry if it seemed like I had an attitude problem, I'm just fed up of people telling me how "cr*p" im doing. I know that I don't know anything about VB, but I am trying to learn.

If anyone could give me a bit of advice on my usercp thread, I'd really appreciate that.

Vbulletin.org is a helpful community. 90% of the people are here to help. We're just point out your mistake so as not to repeat it.

That's a lie.

i'm with you on that one..lmao :p

As everyone has said, that was a bad idea.

You should let your members know what happened. They may have had private information stored on your site somewhere. Information that this person now has access to. Maybe they PM'd something to a friend (a bank password, credit card number, who knows) or maybe they're simply using an email address that they don't want to get out there.

A heads up that someone may have accessed that information would be expected.