Site Downtime/Revert

Ball-Pythons.net suffered an attack last evening that totally destroyed our forum database. Our attackers, whoever they were, were able to gain Admin access to our site and completely delete our databases. We were able to recover our database from a week previous to today's date. We apologize for the downtime and the lost posts. Any user that registered in the time between September 16, 2004 and today will need to re-register. Thank you for your patience and understanding.

lol, so thats why i lost a PM, i was like....huh.



well, YAY!


we win

lol

Thanks for all of your hard work, guys.

Anything that's gone, including PM's and threads and new users, is gone. This is as restored as we're going to get. A big thanks to the host rep who helped restore despite the fact he was supposed to be at his daughter's birthday party.

Yes, a big thanks goes out to him for taking time from his family responsibilities for us!

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A big thanks to the host rep who helped restore despite the fact he was supposed to be at his daughter's birthday party.

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Ditto!

Wow, that was really nice of him...thanks site dude!
And thanks to Carson, Marla, & Smulkin!!

hehehe YAY!
i'm a newbie again! :D

i guess i shoulda registered for the site before the 16th! But, i'm still here, time to start all over :P

Smynx has been right here working with us, too, since 10 minutes after she woke up this morning. She may not be able to do some of the tech stuff, but she has definitely been working.

Thanks for all of your hard work guys, its good to see the forum pretty much back to normal

THANX SMYNX!!! I don't know what we'd do w/o you guys!
(I'm sorry I left you out before, didn't mean to)

oh man, and just yesterday afternoon i made the comment that it had been a rough week, referring to the 2 previous incidents when the site was down. *smacking self in mouth* i just don't understand the thrill people get out of this stuff. but anyhow, thank you SO much to all of you who worked to get things back up and running. you guys are the best!

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Originally Posted by mlededee

.... but anyhow, thank you SO much to all of you who worked to get things back up and running. you guys are the best!

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Its our members that make this place great :). A big thank you goes out to everyone who is a member here and making this place great!

I'm just stunned this happend at all.
I hope it doesn't happen again! =(

wow you lost 1 pm...lucky...I lost 4! and a bunch of my posts! so like people hacked on to the database and deleted and fooled around with a bunch of stuff?

BallPythonBabl448 .. they deleted the entire forum. We were able to get a backup that was ~9 days old.

all my posts are gone :(

Wow, so that's what went down at like 4am or whenever I came on the other night. It said "This board has no forums". Right away I thought "hackers". I'm used to this stuff from a wrestling forum I admin at. There's some stupid people out there that seem to get kicks out of using their "l33t hax0r skills" which involves downloading programs and messing with work that many people put a lot of time and effort into. I understand why some boards get messed with, but never would expect this site to be one of them. We're all so friendly here..I don't understand what would've brought it on.

Oh well, anyway, thanks a quadrillion billion zillion infinitillion for everyone who fixed the problems and got everything up and running again. Sure, we lost a weeks worth of posts, but what's done is done. Best thing to do is move on and give this as little attention as possible, since that's the whole reason people do this kind of stuff to sites.

Good job on patching everything up so fast. :D

-Cody

I'm a student at ITT-Tech and last week we had a guy (a total idiot..hated by the whole school on the first day of class) that figured out the admins password and deleted half the school's accounts. Like the idiot he is, he got busted and tried to deny it. Bottom line is, he thinks he is leet and is the best there ever was, and i'm sure your hacker feels the same way..like he is a lil bad @$$. Well...Accounts at ITT Tech are restored, and the forums here are restored...could this be the same idiot???

What he's thinking:
"I'm so cool. i deleted their forums! look what i did! i'm a HACKER!! i figured out their password and did something so cool"
lmao

I had just registered less than 24 hours previous to the attack, and had to re-register. I'm glad it didnt take a massive amount of information to register like some sites.. haha. But I'm glad that things are back up and running again.

Thanks too all the people that worked so hard to get this back up and running. I look foward to this every morning. As for the hackers it sucks that their lives are so boring that they had to pick on a buck of herpers. Of course some were more put out than others but still it bites.

Wow, sorry to har about the attack. But we here at this site are strong, resilient, and will move on!
Good work to everyone who fixed the problem, and may our attackers, uh, find a new hobby.

looks like we just got attacked again.the chat rooms arent working.This sucks

The chat room works just fine. We didnt get attacked again. Are you having difficulty, pm me :)