[Hacked] Cold War: Melting Point

[SidewinderX]

Hello, i'm quickly informing you of this.... A few days ago our site, www.cw-meltingpoint.com was hacked, and at the moment, i'm trying to repair the damage. Here is a screenshot with all of the the information given on the hacked page itself.

Info

Also, here is an e-mail that was sent to me

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(note, copying this into off topic as well)

 

[Konfuzzyus]

*OUCH*

Definitely the type of hacker I'd like to stuff a keyboard up his rear parts...

If I'd be equally lame, I'd suggest to spam the shown E-Mail address into oblivion, which would neither solve any data loss problems nor teach that My-English-is-even-worse-than-Konfuzzyus' smallbrain some decent english grammar.

I'd just like to know on what type of server you were hosted... Apache? Some MS ****?

 

[Majestic XII]

So everything on the sever is gone?

wow man, that sucks. I really want to help but i cant think of something, sorry :/

 

[SidewinderX]

no actually, they jsut repelaced every index.htm and uindex.php file on the sitre with theirs, and i'm currently removing them. The site itself is intact, i jsut need to fix up all the shit they left behind.

We now the e-mail is a dummy, but i owuld really like to kill them.

It's an apache server.

 

[Majestic XII]

Just a tip:

Dont make a big deal of it, thats is just what the cracker wants (and he's got enough already )

(Yes, i used the word cracker, not the word hacker.)

 

[Argyll]

All HL2Files.com Hosted websites were hit (including mine) and only the index.* files were changed to what was seen in the above screenshot.

 

[SidewinderX]

yeah, it'll be fixed soon, however my studies (damn you kant) are slowing me down...



Andyway, it'd be nice if we can track them down...

 

[simmo]

Yeah, as someone said, all the .hl2files sites where down, including mine ;(, damn techteam

Oh...and how come I didnt get an e-mail ?, or was it because of your domain ?

 

[SidewinderX]

You might notr have gotten an e-mail because they weren't bragging about hacking your site or soemthiong.... that's how they said they got it the notification.... or maybe you don't hav an e-mail addy tied into the the site.

 

[Varg|Hund]

That just sucks mon
I feel sorry for you, and hope that you will have your site fixed soon.

Damn haXors...*grumbles*

 

[Majestic XII]

Hey, i just notice that the Swedish compy store http://www.overclockers.se/ just got hacked... and guess what? It was Techteam

"TechTeaM Haxoring OverClokers.se bahhh thnkz bnfx =* kissz admin patch your box! cyA"

 

[SidewinderX]

hmmm.... if they're hitting alot of places it might be time to mobilze the hl2.net army

To the armorery!

 

[Majestic XII]

hmmm.... if they're hitting alot of places it might be time to mobilze the hl2.net army

To the armorery!

Im already there

 

[Varg|Hund]

What? Armory? Where?
*fumbles with map*
Let's see...I'm supposed to turn left at the Mod Announcements forum, and then go up the stairs and take the second door to the right...*get's lost*

 

[Majestic XII]

What? Armory? Where?
*fumbles with map*
Let's see...I'm supposed to turn left at the Mod Announcements forum, and then go up the stairs and take the second door to the right...*get's lost*

nevermind... we got the homelan commandos ready (i hope )

 

[Konfuzzyus]

Grab A Sword And Fight The Horde!

 

[Argyll]

To fix the hacking for my site... I just had to upload the index.* files again... problem solved (for me at least)

/me loads his C7A1

Let's get those bastards...

 

[ankalar]

/me fills up his Super Soaker

Sorry guys, I've got other business to take care of...

 

[SidewinderX]

Last night I noticed they hit Eternal Silence...

 

[Majestic XII]

www.traptown.com

 

[ray_MAN]

Wow. They need a better protection component. TechTeam are a bunch of n00bs.

 

[Maxi]

Heh some people are really stupid.... i wonder what fun they get from hacking sites?

 

[ray_MAN]

I think we have possibly been hacked to.
http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=16318

 

[Majestic XII]

We will never be hacked!

 

[SidewinderX]

yeah... with our super 1337 support from HomeLAN, nothing cna harm us

[/sarcasm]

 

[The Dark Elf]

yeah... with our super 1337 support from HomeLAN, nothing cna harm us

[/sarcasm]

*sneezes, causing an accidental hack of the entire system*

 

[ComradeBadger]

*sneezes, causing an accidental hack of the entire system*

Fenric, you know you can't put two asterisks in one post.... you'll break HomeLAN ;(

 

[The Dark Elf]

Fenric, you know you can't put two asterisks in one post.... you'll break HomeLAN ;(

lol, scary cause its probably true

 

[zapher]

Just a tip:

Dont make a big deal of it, thats is just what the cracker wants (and he's got enough already )

(Yes, i used the word cracker, not the word hacker.)

Yeah, you shouldn't do that..
Since he did not, to our knowledge, remove/steal/modify any important or classified files he has not met up to the classifications of a cracker.

This appears to be a good guy, or at least somebody who thinks he is.
You should not be angry that he messed up your index-files, but be grateful for that he warned you, since it seems as that it was his mission.


Recently our whole server-network for the Cause And Effect-team was breached.
That time it was not about "warning" anybody about their security-alerts.
It was a worm sent by a non-hackerteam without a reason.
These people did not deserve being called crackers either, since hackers/crackers posess large knowledgements about system-security etc. though to call the Script-kiddies would to them more justice.


Of course it's never nice to have your project/belongings/work modified so I wish you allt he luck and hope you had your more important files off the web-root or possibly of that server!

 

[Incitatus]

Actually there's been a string of mods hacked recently