Yes, my very first forum was hacked back in 2009. Somebody managed to wipe the server it was on and I lost everything with it. Since then though, I've used it as a medium to chat with friends and share stuff.
My community and my other myspace website was hacked in 2009 - this is because I trusted someone inside my server who shouldn't have had access.
Sorry to hear thats why you have to be careful with who you trust. I have had that happen as well. I lost my general discussion forum that way.. all the sites on that server were hacked. The hosting was crappy.
Ya, I don't trust anyone inside my server now - except for my host, and developer. Other than that, nobody else has access. It also taught me how to secure my computer - with being behind a firewall, better passwords, and things like that.
that is slow, horrid and resource intensive, my VPS host has it's own in-house disaster recovery system it uses
My site was hacked not just once but twice in 2010. Once in January and once again in March. If it happens a third time that's probably when I really will give up owning a forum for good. Just too much hassle to wait for everything to be restored, and I'm not exactly what you would call patient.
Older forum. We were on a different host and it was a totally different database. The one we have now is a restart that we came up with in August of 2010.
Yeah, it wasn't fun, let me tell you. That's why I was one of the many members on Forum Promotion who were pissed when that one member decided to stage a hacking of his forum for April Fools. Just because your members were able to take it lightly doesn't mean some of the rest of us will. It was a pretty sick joke to say the least and if a forum ever tried that one on me, I would probably be logging out faster than I registered. Forum hacking is not a laughing matter, and those of us who have been victims of it, we know what it feels like to have a site hacked...Not a happy camper with that member at all. I was a member of his forum and you can bet I will NOT be going back to that site anytime soon.
Yea it was pretty low of that other Admin Forum. I was surprised as its not very professional for an Admin Forum to do that.
I remember there was a competitor forum that staged a hacking, and blamed some of my staff members for it. Its not right to do it, but some people do it for kicks, and try to ruin other's reputation. It's sickening/
