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[JB]

It's not a problem Rik. In fact IDNetters was one of the few boards that had the facility enabled. Other forums like MSE don't have it enabled at all.

Keep up the good work and get an early night after a wee dram...

[Rik]

It might be a big dram, JB. It's not just me, the rest of the team have been beavering away, and I've been talking to Martin & Tim at IDNet.

[pctech]

Any culprits yet?

[Rik]

Too early to say what happened yet, Mitch.

[Steve]

RedLight - BLaDe - quardian - DexteR - Sertac - LazRa - JoviaL - d�rߣd�r - aLLeqRo  are the Hackers I guess

[pctech]

I just saw Sobranie's thread after posting.

Probably a script kiddie.

[JB]

And I would like to apologise if my previous comment to Rik sounded remiss.

I would like to express my gratitude to ALL the admins at IDNetters, not just for getting the forum back so quickly after the attack but also for all the work they put in throughout the year.

A Very Happy New Year to you all and

[Rik]

Our pleasure, JB, I just didn't want to take credit for everyone else's work. My primary function here is to break things.

[kinmel]

My primary function here is to break things.

It is always good to watch an expert at work,  Rik                                                                                              

[pctech]

Sorry to be bring this back to being so serious but I do have to ask.

The server that was compromised did not hold any customer data did it?

[Simon]

As far as we know, it was just hosting the forum(s), Mitch.

[tobykim]

Thanks for the replies will check tomorrow, just checked december and I also have usage for every day of the month

[zappaDPJ]

Hmmm, I posted in this thread earlier on

[Niall]

I only use it, cough, as a bit of reasssurrancee... 

I've used the spellcheck (well, dictionary) addon for firefox for years. It's always handy, but sadly it has ruined my ability to spell

[zappaDPJ]

I find spell checking software invaluable but it sometimes has uninfected results when I foal to reread what I've just creaked

[Rik]

 

[Gary]

I just saw Sobranie's thread after posting.

Probably a script kiddie.

I don't think there are that many script kiddies these days Mitch, the Secunia redirect was Turkish/Muslim fundamentalist based. I think Brunei may or may not be highlighting the same cause or hacking under the same flag for the fun of it, but hacking by script kiddies is more a thing of the past in the mainstream these days as bigger fish have more to make out of it.

[Technical Ben]

Huh? Did I miss something? 

[Rik]

I don't know, Ben, I'm just busy with the dustpan and brush.

[pctech]

I would like to confirm with ID that servers containing customer details including payment data were not compromised.

[Rik]

They were not, Mitch. The server that was attacked had no part of the IDNet system on it.

[pctech]

That's a relief, as a precaution I switched to BACS and got a bill today which I've just paid, I'll put the DD back next month.

[Rik]

The second thing I did, after finding out we were hacked, was to check all the IDNet sites, Mitch. For the first, use your imagination. 

[pctech]

Get on the blower to Simon or Tim or bang in a large order to DR in case the net went down.

[Rik]

Simon and Tim weren't my first point of contact, and I couldn't get anymore in the freezer right now...