Forum Hacked and Admin details changed

[sdfaheem]

My forum was hacked few hours ago, the hacker deleted many user accounts, posts, etc and changed the Admin password, email and other details.

How do i login to the admin account now, how do i change the password, please help me!!!

[Marco van Herwaarden]

If he hasn't changed your email, then request a new password.

If you have lost your access information for your Admin account and can not reset the password using normal procedures, then please do the following:
- Register a new regular forum account.
- Upload tools.php from the 'do_not_upload' folder of your vBulletin distribution to your admincp directory.
- Now point your browser to tools.php.
- Choose "[Reset Admin Access]" to promote the new user account to admin
- Once your problem is fixed please remove tools.php again from the server.
- Optional: If needed add the userid of the new user to the super administrator list in your config.php