ZSNES forums hacked?
- Thread starter xamenus
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It sure was. The popular theory is that before one of the Admins was demoted, someone using his account (may have been him or not) made additional Administrator accounts in secret. Then on 28th of June one of these accounts was used to mass spam every user, ban all the other admins and ultimately the board was deleted. An older back-up was reinstated perhaps by the secret admin that no one knows the identity of. This was also deleted later. The board is now collapsed...
Just goes to show you that this could happen to pretty much any forum - it's scary. Luckily our Admins are 100% trustworthy
Just goes to show you that this could happen to pretty much any forum - it's scary. Luckily our Admins are 100% trustworthy
cooliscool
Nintendo Zealot
Jesus.. what an immature bastard..
Ieremiou
New member
Yeah, I didn't realize somebody posted here about the forum hack. I actually logged in before the boards were ultimately deleted.
I forget what the Hacker's Name was that said hacked it. I just remember it saying You've been hacked by so and so. We have hacked all these forum board softwares and like 2+ times for certain ones.
Such immaturity.
I forget what the Hacker's Name was that said hacked it. I just remember it saying You've been hacked by so and so. We have hacked all these forum board softwares and like 2+ times for certain ones.
Such immaturity.
The Khan Artist
Warrior for God
I pulled a stunt like that on one of my friends, once, when he wouldn't believe me that he had no root password for MySQL.
SELECT * FROM `phpbb_users` WHERE `user_level` = 1;
Always good to do that occasionally when you have multiple admins.
SELECT * FROM `phpbb_users` WHERE `user_level` = 1;
Always good to do that occasionally when you have multiple admins.
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a forum should only ever have ONE admin and then the chain of command should follow where super moderators do most of the work of administering the moderator as staff or at least thats how i do it
i learned the hard way that no matter how trust worthy someone maybe at a particular moment in time
you don't know what time may bring forth , ie you could have some kind of fall out
i learned the hard way that no matter how trust worthy someone maybe at a particular moment in time
you don't know what time may bring forth , ie you could have some kind of fall out
matthew said:
For very large forums that's the only way to run it yeah, as the admin can't possibly control everything. But fortunately this forum isn't so big that such a system is neccesary. And, believe me, all of the admins and mods on this board are good people and trustworthy so I REALLY doubt we'll see such a thing happen here (famous last words? :happy: )
Ieremiou
New member
Ipher's WIP Site.. RIP..
Looks like Ipher move his site from ipher.emuhost.com which now shows a RIP slogan. :bye3:
It's now at http://www.ipherswipsite.com/ instead. So everybody move your links here.
Looks like Ipher move his site from ipher.emuhost.com which now shows a RIP slogan. :bye3:
It's now at http://www.ipherswipsite.com/ instead. So everybody move your links here.
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You could probably find the ZSNES developers/forum administrators on IRC. Also check out CVS for updates on the ZSNES source code at http://sourceforge.net/projects/zsnes