Holy Hack-Attack, Batman!

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March 23, 2010 at 8:21 pm #32165

Jeff Hester
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Zowie! Wham! Boff! Okay, so enough of the old skool Batman tv series references. I found out this morning that our BBB forums had been hacked… about a MONTH ago! Egads!

The problem was detected by another vBulletin forum owner who sent me an email (his site was also hacked). The details are described here: Secutity: Redirction to file2store.info

Essentially, people who got to BBB from Google search were being redirected to some malware site. Argh! For a month now….

The problem has been resolved, and I’m working on tightening up security so it doesn’t happen again. If you discover any weirdness here at the site, please let me know.

March 23, 2010 at 9:32 pm #176825

Doris Kenney
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Glad to hear it’s fixed!!

March 23, 2010 at 9:56 pm #176824

Jeff Hester
Keymaster

I think it’s fixed. I HOPE it’s fixed. I’m a bit unnerved, since I never had a problem accessing the forums. Really sneaky hack!
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