There was an attempt at hacking or vandalizing the Omnimaga website around midnight, which caused all forum attachments to go down. This was done via a script used to clean orphaned files that was ran recently on the server and on TIMGUL's a week or two ago. However, the admin who ran the script forgot to remove it afterward, then tonight, somebody who most likely have read the IRC logs and read about that script probably have tried to launch the script in malicious ways to delete content.

Thankfully, all but 118 attachments were put back online about 30 minutes later, thanks to Juju, then we managed to retrieve the 118 missing files afterward to move them in their original location.

Safety measures were quickly employed afterward, so everything should be back to normal now, with all 6509 attached files available again. Sorry for the inconveniences the files downtime might have caused.

Edit by Juju: After further investigation, we found out no hacking or vandalizing was attempted. Said admin accidentally ran the script a second time, causing the attachments folder to be renamed and the attachments system to malfunction. I was able to easily undo the effects under 30 minutes, thankfully. However it was a good thing this was immediately spotted, so we could remove the script now, in case.

My bad on leaving the script on there, I should have known better.

Indeed, the script only renamed the attachments folder away. I renamed it back to where it originally was, then noticed I forgot 118 files (that I thought were incorrectly named) and put them back in the right folder.

No data were lost, fortunately. And, of course, the script was deleted.

Either someone got the name of the script on IRC, or Netham45 executed the script a second time by rebooting his browser. In fact it's the latter.

Great job putting it back up! hope this won't happen too much in the future...

Well, the only thing I notice in this topic, besides a mistake by one of the manager is Juju's good job.

Seriously, Juju saved the attachments and I think he deserves some recognition =D Nice job and thanks!

thanks Juju!
some bad people still want to attack and destroy the main TI communities (as TI-Bank and Omnimaga), but we'll fight until death!!

Fight until dead, that sounds epic

Well, glad to see it was resolved at least.  On the off chance that someone did ever hack us, we could use our combined calculator power to DDOS them!

Glad to see that everything is okay now.