[Jaffery]

Guys,

I have been busy with some stuff from quite a while so was not able to keep proper eye on my vbulletin forum. In short, I was not following development and whats going around in vb world. I am already paying price for that..

Though had kept my forum updated to latest release.. last was 4.2.2 but I was so busy with other stuff that until now I didn't know that "VBSEO" was discontinued in 2013.. and had a very serious issue with it.

Also, I knew that 4.2.3 is out and was planning to upgrade soon , however today I got notification from Google my forum might have been hacked. So essentially, it was hacked a day ago and hacker installed Wordpress blogs on it.. and apparently for link building.

Again today itself I realized that back in 2014 (with 4.2.2) , vbulletin was seriously affected by 0day vulnerability which allows full access to the server..

So, its been a recipe of disaster..
1. compromised vbseo
2. compromised vbulletin version.

Now I am not sure what strategy to follow to fix issue.. I could have simply cleaned everything and startover only with database however, it appears that I need to get rid of vbseo also but I am seriously concerned with re-written URL structure.. how I am gonna compensate with it.

Worst is that it happened at a time when I am passing through a very critical and overly-occupied phase of my life.. ..

I have been reading some posts and guide about vbulletin hack recovery but friends.. I need expert advice that what will be best strategy for me without loosing traffic..

I had really spent tonnes of hours in customizing this vbulletin (with my limited vb knowledge) and dont' want to loose that..

And to add to it, I just found that my backup system had some issue and was not backing up files from last 2 months.. though I have last 7 days database backups.