is my forum hacked?

[sun179]

I am using vbulletin 4.2 from few months. It was working fine till yesterday but when i login today all my forum category was deleted and their is nothing on the site. But i can see the post count made by the user. Is my forum hacked or their is problem with vbulletin? my forum site link is doubleearning.com. Waiting reply from the representative of vbulletin.

[New Joe]

I don't see how why you think vB can help, have you not contacted your hosting?

[sun179]

Originally Posted by New Joe

I don't see how why you think vB can help, have you not contacted your hosting?

I don't think their is problem with my hosting as their are all the posts but i can't access them. My forum category were automatically deleted. I know that it can be recovered but i don't know how so i am asking help for vbulletin.

[ForceHSS]

Do you have a backup

[chikuru]

Check the Control Panel logs in the admincp..

[Dave]

Either:
- Some tables are corrupted: would display a big error though.
- Your forum has been hacked, most likely the case.

Check the control panel logs under AdminCP > Statistics & Logs > Control Panel Log.
The only way to recover the lost tables is by importing an old database.

[sun179]

Originally Posted by ForceHSS

Do you have a backup

I have a backup but its old one..

[ForceHSS]

Originally Posted by sun179

I have a backup but its old one..

Even if its only its all you have to restore the db

[Lynne]

From the information provided, it is impossible to tell what the issue is - all we can do is guess.

Have you looked at your database to see if the forums and threads are still there? Have you checked your access_logs to see if any IP, other than yours, has been in your admincp? Have you checked your Control Panel logs to see if there has been any action in your admincp?

[TheLastSuperman]

One thing we can tell for sure is this, either it was hacked or someone had access and shouldn't have. Anyone work on it recently? Do you have one ftp account or many that you've not monitored in a while?

Do as Lynne said and check admincp logs, server logs, your plugins for any new plugins (admincp log will show any newly added plugins) check all of it until you find the culprit.

*Also ask your host if they run any forms of backups, files (attachments if stored in fielsystem) and ANY database backups? Despite some hosts not advertising backups running I do know some run them regardless... for example Hostgator runs weekly backups on most of its vps and dedicated server - others such as urljet run hourly backups so there might be a more recent version of your database backed up by your host - simply ask to find out.