quote:
News about PAIDNTRADE!
You will not be receiving any paid email for about a week.
We were hacked and someone decided to add over 5000 members to our
database.
All members are fake names and emails! They have also attached their
info to some of our member's IP addresses, so some of you may be deleted
the next time you login. If this happens and you are an active member
with earnings, and/or referrals, don't worry. Just email us at
webmaster@paidntrade.com and we will place you back in the member base.
If you are one that gets deleted for really having more than one
account, you will not be reinstated. I have all members info downloaded now.
The process to check all member's IP addresses and delete all bogus
members and cheaters will take me about a week and then I will be starting
to get members paid again!
Full Version: Paidntrade get's Hacked...
In a email to it's member's the webmaster for PaidnTrade states that emails will not be sent for a week due to someone hacking into their system signing up over 5,000 members using fake name and emails and even attached info to some of the member's ip addresses...
They weren't hacked they just had cheaters signup.
according to their email they said (see quote) that they were hacked.. Not only did they get the signups but the person responsible also messed with normal old member's ip addresses... If it was just the numerous signups I would say no they probably weren't but they even messed with the member's database and added things to the member's ip addresses..
Maybe this story was all invented by them!!!! They should have a backup of all information somewhere!
quote:She does and stated that in the email. She is also looking closely at each file she is deleting to be sure it was from the hackers program, then saving copies of each account she does eventually delete. She had 5000 added to her member base in approximatly 2 days. I know because I spent a few hours in im helping her wade through it all. A little support for a webmaster doing a trying task would be appropriate here
Originally posted by Maro:
Maybe this story was all invented by them!!!! They should have a backup of all information somewhere!
Mary
Being "hacked" sounds quite weird, if there were any security holes in the CAC default install other programs would have been attacked. I'd say the webmaster has no clue what she's talking about.
[ 06-29-2002, 12:06 PM: Message edited by: baph0met ]
[ 06-29-2002, 12:06 PM: Message edited by: baph0met ]
She WASN'T hacked, she was just confused when all the accounts were made so she thought she'd been hacked.
This did happen to other programs, at the very least, 5 that I know of, including one of my own sites.
quote:What are you talking about? Being "hacked" or having cheaters play around?
Originally posted by Wayne:
This did happen to other programs, at the very least, 5 that I know of, including one of my own sites.
baph0met, no one was hacked, its just cheaters.
Cheaters
chris: thought so, just wanted to make things clear
wayne: okay, got it!
Everybody congratulate me, I just won a barrel of beer in a sports fest!
wayne: okay, got it!
Everybody congratulate me, I just won a barrel of beer in a sports fest!
I'll drink to that! What's the address?
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if you feel like coming to Germany do it really quick, 50 liters of beer wont last too long, we're six rather big guys, plus our "fan club"
quote:Guess a bike ride to the corner market beat out a slow boat to china. ENJOY!
Originally posted by baph0met:
if you feel like coming to Germany do it really quick, 50 liters of beer wont last too long, we're six rather big guys, plus our "fan club"
Have a drink for me
I just pulled out 300 at 1000levels.com, that cheater is still doing the rounds.
I just pulled out 300 at 1000levels.com, that cheater is still doing the rounds.
If those of you who have been hacked need help setting up security and ways to keep people from doing multiple signups please contact me. If you need a hosting solution that isn't going to delete or suspend you as long as you adhere to their terms of service... then contact me for that. It is really fairly easy to prevent problems like this to a large extent. Here's some simple advice you might try to prevent people getting into your files... only have a top-level index.html then in all your subfolders place a blank index.html You might wonder why... well if someone tries to get into your folders the index.html will come up by default of course this does not work on the top level where you need to load the index for people to view. There are many other things you can do to provide security for your sites. Feel free to contact me for more information.
quote:Jeez, that was so profound. Only a security expert could've thought of that.
Originally posted by laurieg:
Here's some simple advice you might try to prevent people getting into your files... only have a top-level index.html then in all your subfolders place a blank index.html You might wonder why... well if someone tries to get into your folders the index.html will come up by default of course this does not work on the top level where you need to load the index for people to view.
[ 06-30-2002, 09:07 AM: Message edited by: baph0met ]
Yeah, I can protect my bandwidth more with that lurk
That was free advice on the html files... there's a lot more that can be done to protect your sites. There is also a lot of very simple things to do to help prevent hacking.
This particular cheater (chinaman) uses stolen IP addresses. Webmasters should check very closely for the real owner of the account not just blindly delete all members tied to that IP address. Also webmaster if you think china is a problem you had better check the country ro. It is also a big problem.
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