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Author:  bobbdobbs [ Mon Mar 18, 2013 11:28 pm ]
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earlier, when trying to access x404 it was popping up with " account suspended". Any ideas what was going on?

Author:  davrosG5 [ Mon Mar 18, 2013 11:29 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: account suspended

Noticed the same thing.

I'm guessing there were some shenanigans at the hosting company.

Author:  ProfessorF [ Mon Mar 18, 2013 11:34 pm ]
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Clean up from the earlier hack I believe.

Author:  big_D [ Tue Mar 19, 2013 4:49 am ]
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Yeah, that was my guess, Prof. Either that or a renewed attack and the hoster/Sas threw the switch to disable the site.

Author:  davrosG5 [ Tue Mar 19, 2013 6:50 am ]
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I must have missed something. Hack?

Author:  John_Vella [ Tue Mar 19, 2013 7:12 am ]
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There were some security issues with another account on the same server so everything was shut down for a while, if I recall correctly. Looks like the same thing happened yesterday as x404 was offline for most of yesterday.

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Author:  saspro [ Tue Mar 19, 2013 8:04 am ]
Post subject:  Re: account suspended

Yup. I pulled the plug whilst I cleaned up the mess of a hack attack on one of the servers as it was redirecting the index page of the main site.

Now the fun part of rebuilding the site

Author:  Amnesia10 [ Tue Mar 19, 2013 6:25 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: account suspended

Well I have changed my password as requested so hopefully we will be fine for a while.

Author:  JJW009 [ Tue Mar 19, 2013 6:53 pm ]
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Amnesia10 wrote:
Well I have changed my password as requested so hopefully we will be fine for a while.

I doubt very much if it was your 47 random digit password that caused the problem :lol:

Author:  Amnesia10 [ Tue Mar 19, 2013 7:22 pm ]
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JJW009 wrote:
Amnesia10 wrote:
Well I have changed my password as requested so hopefully we will be fine for a while.

I doubt very much if it was your 47 random digit password that caused the problem :lol:

Well I changed it to the maximum 30 digits. And yes it randomly generated. :oops:

Author:  John_Vella [ Tue Mar 19, 2013 8:25 pm ]
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I've changed my password as well. Just in case :roll: :D

Author:  Amnesia10 [ Tue Mar 19, 2013 11:17 pm ]
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John_Vella wrote:
I've changed my password as well. Just in case :roll: :D

It is only really a problem if you use the same password for everything. At worst for me they will only gain my email address.

Author:  jonbwfc [ Wed Mar 20, 2013 12:03 am ]
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Hmm. Changed my password this morning, came to log in here this evening (different PC) and it was claiming I'd made too many unsuccessful login attempts. It's possible the hackers have scraped the pages for account names and are trying to 'brute force' passwords, so I'd suggest nice secure passwords if you're changing.

Jon

Author:  Amnesia10 [ Wed Mar 20, 2013 12:12 am ]
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jonbwfc wrote:
Hmm. Changed my password this morning, came to log in here this evening (different PC) and it was claiming I'd made too many unsuccessful login attempts. It's possible the hackers have scraped the pages for account names and are trying to 'brute force' passwords, so I'd suggest nice secure passwords if you're changing.

Jon

Do you think it is worth the admins having a scan of the passwords to see if any have particularly weak passwords advising them to change them? My password manager has a feature for colour coding strong passwords.

Author:  timark_uk [ Wed Mar 20, 2013 9:47 am ]
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Amnesia10 wrote:
Do you think it is worth the admins having a scan of the passwords to see if any have particularly weak passwords advising them to change them?
They should all be hashed, nobody should be able to view any of the passwords.

Mark

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