Forum² Staff Shawn Posted October 16, 2024 Forum² Staff Posted October 16, 2024 What has been the worst experience ever that you have had with a forum? Tell us your biggest forum horror story here! Quote My forums: Another Admin Forum | vBAdmins Forum | Off Topic Forum | The Hiking Forum
Forum² Admin AWS Posted October 16, 2024 Forum² Admin Posted October 16, 2024 On man! Bad memories. I got an email from a co-admin about the site be hacked. One thing an admin never wants to hear. I went to the site and was greeted with a page that said I should pay 500 bitcoin to get the site back. I was in panic mode. WTF am going to to do. I hadn't even logged in to the server yet. I fire up RDP and log in to the server. Loaded right up. Now I'm thinking "wait a minute if my files are all encrypted why can I get into the server". I think maybe it's only the webroot. I open up webroot and can clearly see and access all the files. At that point I knew it was a scam. I still had to find out why they were able to replace the index. Upon investigating I found I had left a test site on an old vulnerable version of Wordpress public accessible. I removed it and replaced the site index. Did a security audit and all was clean. Lesson learned. Of you have old installs of anything make sure you don't leave them online. Quote General Forums - Where People Converse
Immortal Posted November 4, 2024 Posted November 4, 2024 I was once an active member on a certain gaming forum, admin was nice but I couldn't tolerate his moderator. The moderator even used F word in the public forum, so I stopped using the forum Quote Admin Junkies * ROFLMAO * Talk Horror Games * SWC * V. S. Rock Club * Marketing Forum * Is It Just Me * Off Topicz
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