TSD Hacked

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  1. Primotenore

    Primotenore missed opera tunity

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    Am I the only one who noticed last evening that the TSD site was hacked by some Nigerian Web Site???
    Mods? :signs002:
    I strongly urge TSD to adopt an encrypted "Https" site.
     
  2. Jim99

    Jim99 Gold Water Shaver

    If true, that is really bad news. What did you see that tipped you off to it?
     
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  3. Primotenore

    Primotenore missed opera tunity

    Article Team
    When I pressed the "New Posts" button, I was completed redirected to a different web page that gloated: "You have just been hacked by such and such..." I don't recall the exact name. I immediately quit, restarted my computer and ran a malware program.
    Not good---and all unencrypted web sites are vulnerable. This includes TSD.
     
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  4. Jim99

    Jim99 Gold Water Shaver

    Well, no problems on my phone so far. However, some pictures are not appearing and the biggest member trolling our site is baidu. That's a bot out of China. Not sure what that's about.
     
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  5. Jayaruh

    Jayaruh The Cackalacky House Pet

    Supporting Vendor
    My pictures on SOTD page disappeared since yesterday. I wonder if that is related.
     
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  6. Jim99

    Jim99 Gold Water Shaver

    That's what happened to mine in the SR SOTD!
     
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  7. sparky5693

    sparky5693 Administrator Staff Member

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    We were hacked by a nigerian group, claiming that the lack of beards offended them for religious reasons.

    One of our addons was penetrated allowing the hacker access to the admin panel of the software, in this case an https would not have prevented a software vulnerability from being exploited.

    For the repair, we restored from a backup roughly 24 hours old, so there would be some posts, pics etc that unfortunately had to be lost in my attempt to get the website up as quickly as possible.
     
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  8. HolyRollah

    HolyRollah BaconLord

    Thank you, Sparky!
     
  9. Jim99

    Jim99 Gold Water Shaver

    So, let me get this straight. This site was hacked because shaving offended someone?
     
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  10. sparky5693

    sparky5693 Administrator Staff Member

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    Supposedly... but honestly, who knows.
     
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  11. david of central florida

    david of central florida Rhubarb Rubber

    Thank you
     
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  12. jimjo1031

    jimjo1031 never bloomed myself

    Yeah, they even have a Facebook page telling about who and how many sites they hack.
     
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  13. jimjo1031

    jimjo1031 never bloomed myself

    Hey, The Den just got hacked again, just now in fact. went to another post and there it was. Had to return here to post this.
     
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  14. richgem

    richgem suffering from chronic clicker hand cramps

    I noticed the problem this morning on my desktop. But I can get the TSD just fine on my phone.
     
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  15. richgem

    richgem suffering from chronic clicker hand cramps

    possibly of additional interest: I still cannot reach TSD on my desktop, now nothing comes up. Also in terms of my phone, I can reach it just fine using 4G, but not using Wi-Fi. via Wi-Fi nothing comes up.
     
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  16. Rufus T.

    Rufus T. Late for dinner

    I am redirected to the hackers page each time I try to enter directly to the TSD site using iPad or iPhone - using Safari. I can only enter the TSD site, hence this post - via logging into Tapatalk first.

    I have not tried my desktop as I am traveling.

    Hope this helps.


    Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
     
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  17. Darkbulb

    Darkbulb Cookie Hoarder

    I wonder if it was the tapatall add on that was used to gain access to the site.
     
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  18. OK, I'm just now able to access the site again via the mobile site. I tried a few minutes ago and was still getting the hacked page. Haven't tried from my desktop yet.
     
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  19. sparky5693

    sparky5693 Administrator Staff Member

    Administrator
    That would be because we were just hit a second time. I am in the process of tightening up security to prevent this from reoccurring, but that is still in progress.
     
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  20. Bobcat

    Bobcat Well-Known Member

    It got my immediate attention this morning!! Kudos to our highly paid IT team for getting us up and running again!!
     
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