Something seriously got F'd up on the site in the past 24 hours.....5 years of attachments - gone.     ...for unknown reasons. 

I'm pulling my hair out trying to get them restored - but for now, you will notice attachments in posts prior to 10/24 are missing from all the way to day 1.

Just thought I'd let you guys know I am aware of it and working on getting them back.

I was gonna ask about so many missing avatars.  That explains a lot. 

Hope you're able to restore them.

crap i didnt even notice that....wtf?!

soo....all the attachments are back.

So what happened was the software that i was using for the old SCJB store had a vulnerability and someone exploited it. They set up a shell and deleted the entire contents of the attachments folder. So every picture anyone had ever uploaded to the site in the past 5 years - GONE. 3 gigs of data...GONE. I called my host who does weekly backups of my site, but the backup was run only a few hours before i called and the only backup they had ran after the directory had been cleaned out - I was screwed.

About 2 years ago I set up synchronize this site to a shell account nightly. This was costing me about $50 to do. Times got tough and I cancelled the service.

I was desperate and I decided to see if by chance the shell account was still active and sure as shit it was - and still synchronizing actively.  The shell was only a 100gig shell....and it had well over 175gigs in it. Obviously no one is watching it nor has audited my account.....so I cleaned it up and I will just continue to use it.

I was able to pull the 3gig folder and get it transferred back....and the old store's vulnerability has been removed as well.......and we're back online - the last 24 hours has been hell.

"A GIG AWHAT." Nice job Brad. (rivertard)

surprised someone expoited these forums, as its not very "mainstream", ie: vbuletin, phorum, etc...  is this a shared hosting server?  i hate it when someone elses site gets exploited and then they run a search for all writeable dir's by the httpd/apache user and then spread into those. 


$50 for a shell?  thats more than i pay for one of my dedi's...


ps if you ever need hosting (i know touchy subject) i have pleeenty of bandwidth.