Key Posted September 8, 2013 Share Posted September 8, 2013 It's been a pretty hectic day so far, as someone hacked YO. The forum was displaying the hacker's message and kept playing a background song (which still echoes in my ears XD) Apparently the hacker exploited a weak point in vBulletin. After almost 3 hours of work, we managed to clean all the malicious code the hacker inserted. We've also implemented some additional security measures. The members accounts weren't affected, but if you want you can still change your password. Again, this is not required, but you can do it if it makes you feel more at ease. No information was leaked, as the hacker only managed to 'play' with the forum's templates. With the new security measures added the chances that such an attack would occur again are much much lower. Thank you all for the continuous support! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shieru Hakai Posted September 8, 2013 Share Posted September 8, 2013 Thanks for all staffs's hard work.. hope it wont happen again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shio Posted September 8, 2013 Share Posted September 8, 2013 ahh that's one i saw when trying to view forum so it's a hacker =___= hope YO will be safe from the hacker. Thank Please Register/ Sign In, in order to see the links. for ur announcement Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rainbowman Posted September 8, 2013 Share Posted September 8, 2013 Thank you for the hard work! Yea the song "Haunted" got stuck in my head too XD Again, thank you for the hard work : ) That scared me for YO's sake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arekushisu Posted September 8, 2013 Share Posted September 8, 2013 Thanks for all the hard work! I didnt see it but it sounds scary and I hope YO is now safe. - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ka-chan Posted September 8, 2013 Share Posted September 8, 2013 Thank you! I remember just sitting here normally as usual. I refreshed my browser to see the news, but instead of the vBulletin page I got the creepy music and the message. I told Please Register/ Sign In, in order to see the links. about it and Please Register/ Sign In, in order to see the links. , and from there a lot of people saw it too. I got so scared, I thought it was my own computer being hacked! xD I'm glad it's fixed now, and I'll hate that song forever now. ._. Thank you Please Register/ Sign In, in order to see the links. for all of your work! I hope YO will stay safe in the future! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aoi Posted September 8, 2013 Share Posted September 8, 2013 OMG what an idiot to hack a yaoi site thank you for getting YO back~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YLover Posted September 8, 2013 Share Posted September 8, 2013 I bet the hacker was like this :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shi.No.Tobiko Posted September 8, 2013 Share Posted September 8, 2013 I think it was retarded someone took the time to hack a Yaoi Site.... Not sure why they wasted their time... They should be using that talent to join Anonymous and do something useful... Anyway great job! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dai Posted September 8, 2013 Share Posted September 8, 2013 I panicked so much when I saw the message I was like SCREW YOU HACKERS :1onion49: Thank you for the hard work and bringing YO back! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Pen Posted September 8, 2013 Share Posted September 8, 2013 Thanks @Key for the update! Even though I'm still a little new around here I got worried once it went down and I kept thinking "hackers? Or are they working on it?" so I waited until it was back up. I'm glad it's running great~ Keep up the great work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YaoTaku98 Posted September 9, 2013 Share Posted September 9, 2013 Thank you so much for your hard work! I thought I had lost YO for good! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
italics Posted September 9, 2013 Share Posted September 9, 2013 Grrrr... Frikin Script kiddies.. what was the point even? -//-; They managed to deface a publically accessible and open source forum platform. Is that really something to brag about? :/ I'm so happy it was just something to do with templates and not database stuff! ^///^ You guys are awesome! Love you! Did you happen to get any usable information as to who it might be? Like, for instance, an IP address? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Key Posted September 9, 2013 Author Share Posted September 9, 2013 Please Register/ Sign In, in order to see the links. Yeah, luckily it wasn't more than that. And with this occasion we implemented some extra security measures as well. We did, but most probably the attacker was hiding behind a proxy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tetsu Posted September 9, 2013 Share Posted September 9, 2013 Please Register/ Sign In, in order to see the links. Sankyuu for your hardwork Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
「viviD Posted September 9, 2013 Share Posted September 9, 2013 Ehh, so that's why I couldn't access YO, it kept saying error or unavailable or something. Well, now, that's good. I think the hackers are just trolling. Internet these days aren't safe. Hack here, hack there. ;~; Thank you very much, Key-sama, for your announcement. :"D Gambatte~! Thank you so much for your hard work! ^^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dreamer4ever Posted September 9, 2013 Share Posted September 9, 2013 Thank you Key for the announcement. Even though I wasn't affected by the hack (as some intuition told me not to use my computer yesterday), still thank you for clearing up the mess by those hackers. I agree to the fact that hackers are horrible, so far, I have been hacked three times already to know how tiring it is to due with them. Now I have everything in high security (one can never know when they might strike again). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matti_19 Posted September 9, 2013 Share Posted September 9, 2013 I wasn't online yesterday, and I was surprised when I saw this announcement. O_O Some people are really evil.. Thanks to the staff for the hard work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobCrazy Posted September 9, 2013 Share Posted September 9, 2013 Jesus, I didn't even saw this. Good work Please Register/ Sign In, in order to see the links. and all the staff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Pen Posted September 9, 2013 Share Posted September 9, 2013 I'm just glad YO! Is safe I didn't hear the song but it was to late the site went down. I never realized what happen until friends said something and/or I seen it be talked about in the forums. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PRINCE_Z_E_T_A Posted September 9, 2013 Share Posted September 9, 2013 . - . I can't believe some people can do such low things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Menchitah Posted September 10, 2013 Share Posted September 10, 2013 I really thought it was my computer at first :c. Thanks for all your hard work! ^w^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ero Gaki Posted September 10, 2013 Share Posted September 10, 2013 Maybe he watches too much Yuri and all. XD Thank you for the hard work. ^_^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kihi Posted September 12, 2013 Share Posted September 12, 2013 I think YO garner attention with the recent release. I saw YO release update in MangaUpdate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OtakuMadness Posted September 12, 2013 Share Posted September 12, 2013 Why are all the sites I visit these days getting hacked... rabbit12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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