Someone hacked my admin account!/

[Chad Warden]

Someone hacked my admin account how to I find out my password on the FTP to change it? (he also changed the email so it doesn't send me the password.

[Lynne]

Best thing to do is register a new user, then ftp to your site and upload tools.php *in the do_not_upload directory) to the admincp directory, point your browser there, and reset admin access for the new user. Now delete tools.php and see if you can login to the admincp using the new user.

[Chad Warden]

Originally Posted by Lynne

Best thing to do is register a new user, then ftp to your site and upload tools.php *in the do_not_upload directory) to the admincp directory, point your browser there, and reset admin access for the new user. Now delete tools.php and see if you can login to the admincp using the new user.

that seems confusing. :S

[Lynne]

Well, I figured it would be easier than having you get into the database to modify stuff. It really isn't that confusing if you read each step and then carefully do them.

[TheLastSuperman]

Noy Oye aye?

Now that's confusing ^

Lynne meant, Register on your site under a new nick (use a proxy too if you believe he/she's looking for you) then if you still have FTP access (Filezilla etc) upload your tools.php that came included with your vBulletin files the tools.php is in the do_not_upload folder.

Now go to

http://www.yoursite.com/admincp/tools.php

Run it and reset admin access for the new user then immediately afterwords delete the tools.php file from your server.