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Help Please, Our Forum is disappearing
« on: March 19, 2011, 11:09:51 pm »
Forum Url: www.mlno.org
Over the past 20 minutes or so, our forum has been disappearing. Staff cannot log in, and posts and boards are just disappearing. Please help!

www.mlno.org   http://www.mlno.org/index.php?action=forum

thank you


edit... it seems to have vanished entirely...
« Last Edit: March 20, 2011, 07:36:21 am by MsRowdyRedhead »

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Re: Help Please, Our Forum is disappearing
« Reply #1 on: March 20, 2011, 09:50:31 am »
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Over the past 20 minutes or so, our forum has been disappearing. Staff cannot log in, and posts and boards are just disappearing. Please help!
That is not normal site behavior... It sounds like you have been hacked....By a rogue mod or admin or someone guessed the  password for one of those accounts.

The last possible complete backup I have is from June of 2010 I believe. Trying a data recovery tool but probably less than 1% chance that will work.
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Re: Help Please, Our Forum is disappearing
« Reply #2 on: March 20, 2011, 02:32:05 pm »
Were there multiple admin accounts on the forum?

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Re: Help Please, Our Forum is disappearing
« Reply #3 on: March 20, 2011, 02:49:07 pm »
There are three admins on the board. Me, Dudebot5000, and nwj(Original creator of the board).

There was a fourth account, but I'm not too sure on it's permissions.

However; from what I've heard from one of the members... Somehow, I was on the forum when I was sleeping. And I don't think I've gotten 'sleeptyping' down.

I have only gotten that one story, however.

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Re: Help Please, Our Forum is disappearing
« Reply #4 on: March 20, 2011, 02:56:46 pm »
Let me know what should happen next. Restore from older backup or start fresh. Restoring will take a couple days since is has to extra millions of files. We have a recent backup of the styles/avatars/theme data of the site/attachments.
Put up the most recent google cache of the main index page for now as a placeholder.
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Re: Help Please, Our Forum is disappearing
« Reply #5 on: March 20, 2011, 03:00:26 pm »
Now, you say the last backup was from June, right?

Also, would this slow down other sites on SMF For Free?

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Re: Help Please, Our Forum is disappearing
« Reply #6 on: March 20, 2011, 03:06:30 pm »
That's the last one that I believe is complete and not corrupt with messages/topics etc.
Wouldn't impact other sites it would just be extracting the data from my home computer.
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Re: Help Please, Our Forum is disappearing
« Reply #7 on: March 20, 2011, 03:10:59 pm »
Alright, it's worth a shot then... Better than what we have right now. Would be nice if we could have gotten a little more recent one; but if this is the best shot we have of it actually working, then I think we should definitely use this one; better than nothing.

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Re: Help Please, Our Forum is disappearing
« Reply #8 on: March 20, 2011, 04:43:31 pm »
Thank you so much for your help!

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Re: Help Please, Our Forum is disappearing
« Reply #9 on: March 21, 2011, 10:17:47 am »
Still recovering got about 65 data files from a backup.
At about 240 files recovered one key file waiting is for pms hoping it will be ready to use some time tonight.
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Re: Help Please, Our Forum is disappearing
« Reply #10 on: March 22, 2011, 12:37:57 pm »
Thank you so much for your hard work on trying to get the forum back up and running.

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Re: Help Please, Our Forum is disappearing
« Reply #11 on: March 22, 2011, 11:30:14 pm »
Recovered what I could.
Removed all admins for now. Strongly change all mods/admins passwords. When done let me know and I can restore a user an admin account.
Unable to recover pms and polls.

Gave the forum the following:
Chat addon,newsletter addon, smilies upgrade, 200mb forum upload space for attachments/gallery. and ad free

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Re: Help Please, Our Forum is disappearing
« Reply #12 on: March 23, 2011, 01:30:39 pm »
Thanks SMF, for what you have done. =)

I have changed my password, and will put the word out for the other mods and admins.

Once again, thank you SMF, for doing the best you could in restoring the forum.

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Re: Help Please, Our Forum is disappearing
« Reply #13 on: March 23, 2011, 02:33:03 pm »
Restored admin to your account.
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Re: Help Please, Our Forum is disappearing
« Reply #14 on: March 23, 2011, 05:20:56 pm »
Again, our deepest thanks.

 

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