Salome
Administrator
After communicating with vBulletin and our hosting provider it looked like there were two possible avenues the hackers used to get in. One is a hole in the vBulletin software and the other a security issue with our hosting provider. To eliminate the latter, we moved the forum to a different service provider. So we closed the board ourselves while we were doing that maneuver. It's freaking huge and takes forever to transfer.
While we do back up the forum, I'm glad they didn't delete it. It looks like they just replaced the homepage with theirs. I know they sent members a weird email, and we apologize for that! It appears that they were not able to access anyone's email address. It looks like they sent their email through the forum system mass member email feature. All passwords are encrypted. Even if someone gets Admin access they are not visible.
That's all I have to report for now.
While we do back up the forum, I'm glad they didn't delete it. It looks like they just replaced the homepage with theirs. I know they sent members a weird email, and we apologize for that! It appears that they were not able to access anyone's email address. It looks like they sent their email through the forum system mass member email feature. All passwords are encrypted. Even if someone gets Admin access they are not visible.
That's all I have to report for now.