- Joined
- Jun 30, 1998
- Location
- Bierland
Just a quick announcement - but Casinomeister was hacked, both the forum and the main site with a trojan that injected some malicious code into about 30 php files. There was also a breach in the security in the forum where users email addresses may have been compromised. If it can happen to eBay and Target, it can happen here.
I've spent the last 20 hours or so cleaning up the mess, but it's not really that bad - except for the breach of email addresses. I'm not sure if this was a deliberate malicious attack, or something random, or some rogue file that was transferred over when we moved servers. We're still investigating how this happened, and hope to find an answer soon.
I hope that a number of you have unique email addresses being used here so that if you start getting spammed, we can find out who hacked the site. That would be great.
In the meantime, it would be prudent of you change your passwords for your forum account.
I've spent the last 20 hours or so cleaning up the mess, but it's not really that bad - except for the breach of email addresses. I'm not sure if this was a deliberate malicious attack, or something random, or some rogue file that was transferred over when we moved servers. We're still investigating how this happened, and hope to find an answer soon.
I hope that a number of you have unique email addresses being used here so that if you start getting spammed, we can find out who hacked the site. That would be great.
In the meantime, it would be prudent of you change your passwords for your forum account.