BKF Admin
Queen Bee
- Joined
- Jul 28, 2008
- Messages
- 6,344
- Reaction score
- 12
- Location
- Hampshire uk
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- 6
A big sorry to all members for the recent downtime.
The problem was a hacker that managed to compromise the server.
I have been running 2 websites on the server,this one and a lung cancer charity site that I host and manage for free.
The charity website has a gallery for member pictures that include a section of members who have passed away.
I had not updated the album software since the start of the new year and a security patch had been released that I failed to upload.
This left the door wide open for a hacker to enter the server and wreck a few files.
I was going to upload a backup of the forum but it was just under a week old so we would of lost a few hundred posts and a few new members who had joined up in the last 7 days.
As is typical of these sort of problems the hacker managed to choose just about the busiest weekend I have had for a few years, so I was unable to dig into the database and files to fix things as I was mainly offline for 4 days.
There are still a few things to fix such as the gallery blogs etc,these I will fix and re-install over the next few hours and days.
A big thank you for all the telephone calls and offers of help that I received from members over the weekend,and most of all thank you for your continued support of the forum.
Mark (Admin).
The problem was a hacker that managed to compromise the server.
I have been running 2 websites on the server,this one and a lung cancer charity site that I host and manage for free.
The charity website has a gallery for member pictures that include a section of members who have passed away.
I had not updated the album software since the start of the new year and a security patch had been released that I failed to upload.
This left the door wide open for a hacker to enter the server and wreck a few files.
I was going to upload a backup of the forum but it was just under a week old so we would of lost a few hundred posts and a few new members who had joined up in the last 7 days.
As is typical of these sort of problems the hacker managed to choose just about the busiest weekend I have had for a few years, so I was unable to dig into the database and files to fix things as I was mainly offline for 4 days.
There are still a few things to fix such as the gallery blogs etc,these I will fix and re-install over the next few hours and days.
A big thank you for all the telephone calls and offers of help that I received from members over the weekend,and most of all thank you for your continued support of the forum.
Mark (Admin).
Mike
