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« on: April 01, 2006, 01:06:00 am »
Hi, many of you probably noticed the board was taken down again last evening. In fact some people found nothing better to do than ruining almost 2 years of hard work in a community. Last evening I talked to Invisionfree staff about this and according to them the crackers have found a security hole in their servers, allowing them to access the SQL database and edit, delete or overwrite the files. By doing so they also found my password, allowing them to access my admin CP as well, so they could deface the front page as well with a troll picture and the following signature.

"51+3 P//||3|) 8Y LORD REKOJLIRPA [email protected]"

Luckily during the night Invisionfree got able to repair the database and make the board functional and stable again, however due to the heavy damage done they won't be able to recover the topics and posts, as well as some forum sections. All members accounts are still intact though. I am sorry for the inconvenience this might cause. Now Invisionfree fixed the security hole so things like this will not happen again in the future but that doesn't mean that the troublemakers didn't ruined 2 years of hardwork into a community. They are the one to blame.

We will try to continue running the Omnimaga project like usual from now on. As for the archives, they will be probably replaced with the old ones, same for the link section, as I am not updating them much anymore nowadays.

In the meantime if you need a Omnimaga program go to the old website here: http://omnimaga.unitedti.org/archive_v3.html

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« Reply #1 on: April 01, 2006, 01:44:00 am »
Maybe we should try to track this person down our selves and beat him with a wet noodle... I would be willing to take turns if yall want...
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« Reply #2 on: April 01, 2006, 02:09:00 am »
yes, lets destroy this flea
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« Reply #3 on: April 01, 2006, 02:31:00 am »
has anyone contacted him yet??

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« Reply #4 on: April 01, 2006, 03:30:00 am »
this isn't an April Fools joke by you guys right? just somebody else playing a mean prank on us on April Fools?

well, back to business as usual for me then.

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« Reply #5 on: April 01, 2006, 03:34:00 am »
this is someone on another sites 'funny' idea for an April Fools joke.  We had planned something else but i think it has now been canceled.

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« Reply #6 on: April 01, 2006, 03:35:00 am »
Yeah, Kevin was talkin about some really cool changes, to really scare people, but he wasn't expecting this. :(sad.gif
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« Reply #7 on: April 01, 2006, 03:50:00 am »
I guess this is the straw that broke the camel's back...

I'm outta here!
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« Reply #8 on: April 01, 2006, 03:57:00 am »
Aww, come on, don't leave. :(sad.gif

We are hoping that IF has a back up of it. If they do, then we shouldn't have lost a lot of info... If not, it will give us a chance to get things re-organized...
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« Reply #9 on: April 01, 2006, 04:10:00 am »
Argh. Isn't there some ip footprint he/they left that we can use to figure out who it is and then smash?

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« Reply #10 on: April 01, 2006, 04:24:00 am »
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I should give up now... I won't... but I should... all that work... gone

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« Reply #11 on: April 01, 2006, 04:35:00 am »
Wait, your work isn't gone is it? I mean you have everything saved on your computer right? :o

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« Reply #12 on: April 01, 2006, 04:38:00 am »
First... Ticalc gets hacked. And now, Omnimaga gets hacked.
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« Reply #13 on: April 01, 2006, 04:38:00 am »
and I have killed my RPG
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« Reply #14 on: April 01, 2006, 04:39:00 am »
ticalc.org too? O_Oshocked2.gif *spengo is angered* Wait, I can't get to the maxcoderz forum either? Is this the same thing or just a normal problem?