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P***ks. <!--emo&--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... ns/mad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='mad.gif' /><!--endemo-->

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*emits a long string of expletives*

That explains why nothing came up when I checked earlier. Stupid Vitnamese hacker *Gets flamethrower and chases after him*

Are all the old topics going to be rescued, or are they all DOA?

I thought it might've been a hack, how do you know it was the Vietnamese guy?

<span style='color:green'><span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>Folks! <br><br>We need to be careful about throwing around nationality insults.<br><br>We've been hacked, but that doesn't mean that we lose our civility here!</span></span>

That's weird, how come the News and Serious Discussion forum went out but the rest didn't?<br><br>EDIT: Oh wait, it's called World Events now isn't it? Whoops.

Huh. Congrats, hackers, your years and years of honing your prodigious computer skills have finally borne fruit - you managed to succeed in mildly irritating a clique of comic fans. Hold your heads high in pride.

<!--QuoteBegin-Burning Sheep Productions+Jan 20 2006, 05:49 PM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (Burning Sheep Productions @ Jan 20 2006, 05:49 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> I thought it might've been a hack, how do you know it was the Vietnamese guy? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br> They've probably got records of an IP address from Vietnam accessing the server.

The new forum name was the similar to the last two times.

This looks like a job for your friendly neighborhood Spiderman!

Another forum associated with a comic was hacked once. I held on to the explanation the author put of what course of action he followed, thinking it might be useful. If anyone can understand it, and if it's useable in this situation, here's what he did...<br><br><!--QuoteBegin--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> </td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> However, he neglected to demote all the admin accounts. I found one that worked and looked at his posts. More accurately, I used the admin option to get the IP those posts were posted from.<br><br>Yes. Now it gets interesting. All of his posts came from the same IP. I pinged it. It didn't reply. This means it's less likely to be a compromized (Zombie) system, and more likely to be his actual home system. I reverse-DNSed it and it belonged to an ISP in Canada. I called them and talked to a lot of people who liked to say "eh" at the end of sentances until I got to the right department. They confirmed it was an IP of theirs and took my complaint against the user.<br><br>This gets better. That specific ISP encodes their user's MAC addresses in their reverse DNS lookups. So just by looking at the reverse-DNS, I have his MAC id. So now I easily have all the information I need to actually identify and prosecute him.<br><br>I posted that on the forum and said I wouldn't press charges if he returned the forum to the way it was. He got pretty worried. His posts from that point on implied he was pretty scared. He apologized and even told me how to fix the exploit he used. Unfortunately, he didn't back up the data, so that's all gone. Also (though who knows if he's telling the truth) his ISP called his home and his parents got the call. So he's in pretty deep shit (if he's to be believed).<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd-->