[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.

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

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(note, copying this into off topic as well)

 

[Maxi]

Hehe i know its not funny but that wasnt exactly the first thing that one would expect someone to post Anyways sorry bout your site... i dunno what to do thou... move on? get a firewall?

 

[The Mullinator]

Man that sucks, I wish I could do something but I don't know much about running websites and servers.

I hope the damage can be easily repaired.

 

[SidewinderX]

yeah, they didn't delete anyhting....they jsutreplaced all the index files (and damn, there are a lot of them)...

should be fixe dina few days.

 

[Mechagodzilla]

They should hack someone who deserves it, like some pro-rascism site or something; use thier power for good, instead of obnoxious.

Also, what does that message they left even mean? Why do people think that it's cool to be stupid? Argh.

 

[phantomdesign]

I don't know why anyone would want to hack it.

 

[The Mullinator]

Its cool to be stupid when all of your friends are also stupid. Hes just showing off to all of his obviously unintelligent hacker buddies.

 

[synth]

The moral of the story is.......

back up your files

 

[Javert]

Originally posted by synth
The moral of the story is.......

back up your files

Yeah, I remember a Max Payne fan site being hacked, and all files lost in the process (whether intentional or a by-product).
Luckily, you were more fortunate and that this was merely a defacement prank. Worse things could've happened.

Good Luck to you.

 

[Dedalus]

i don't know what sort of help you're asking for. you want us to assasinate someone? help repair your site? what? only thing i can suggest is contact your server provider and ask them to upgrade their security. make sure you tell them exactly what's happened to they can alert other users as well.

apart from that all i can say is it happens to people sooner or later, just pot luck i guess. probably someone doing it for a laugh. i knew a hacker who would do that to people's sites, brag about it, but put everything back to normal once he'd got his praise. doesn't look like it's that fellow.

 

[SidewinderX]

Heh....I guess the hl2 community isn't quite , hmmm... "involved" as the AAops community was.... I'd jsut sorta like to know if we could figure out who it was.... with the aaops, after the first round of major hacks hit it, someone hacked *****'s website and put the goarmy.com website in it's place, but they included in the top corner "***** has been pegged by AAOp's grenade".


good times.

 

[PriNcE oF SpAcE]

heeh someone hit AA's website?...isn't that military property?