Oct. 8, 2006 @ 19:54
HaJ website host hacked *sigh*

As if my month couldn’t get any worse…

About an hour ago (as of time of this post) the hosting company where the Ham and Jam website and forums are held has been “hacked” by what appears to be a group protesting about the US involvement in the Middle East. The irritating thing is that I had just decided to sit down and back-up the server in preparation for a move to a non-US host when this happened.

Well isn't that speshul

Well isn’t that speshul…

The first problem was a 500 server error followed by the actual website itself not responding to requests. I figured that if I it was a config error with the server I should still be able to get in via the control panel and FTP to do the back-up. It was when I logged into cPanel that I got the actual hackers message itself.

More than likely they got in through the recently announced cPanel security hole which is scary because the same whole is being used to inject code into sites to deliver worms via Internet Explorer to unsuspecting users.

At the moment I can’t say when the Ham and Jam site will be back up and running but it’s certainly pushed forward moving things to a new host. I just hope I can recover the files from the server and more importantly the database dump.

This doesn’t affect Ham and Jam development as all content is kept elsewhere, however it does mean effort has to be redirected to fixing this problem rather than working on the game as the forums were a key method of co-ordinating the team.

UPDATE: Gaah! They’ve done what I hoped they wouldn’t – they’ve progressively drilled down all the sites hosted by the company and replaced the index files with their message. This now means our homepage and forums are displaying their crap.

UPDATE 2: Well I seem to of removed their crap from our site but our admin panel is still hosed. :o(

Responses to “HaJ website host hacked *sigh*”


F***ing unbelivable!
I wish they where a bit more selective with what they hack…

Posted by spine
Sun, October 8th, 2006 @ 21:38

Nothing ceases to amaze me anymore. Friggin’ people have nothing better to do than to sit on their fat asses and destroy other peoples’ work.

Good luck with the restoration. You seem to be on the right track.

Cheers!
Greg

Posted by Greg Lobeck
Sun, October 8th, 2006 @ 21:51

Yeah icetex was hacked 🙁 several mod sites and everything on that server was attacked. What they basicly did was replaced every file that has index or main in the title :

Posted by jaboo224
Mon, October 9th, 2006 @ 07:25

Heh, I know exactly how you feel. Im a texture artist for the Black Mesa Source modification, and we are getting pretty used to being hacked. 😛
This very same thing happened to us a couple of weeks ago.
It’s a real pain.

Posted by Fleistad
Tue, October 10th, 2006 @ 00:41

Fscking script kiddies. Go protest in Washington.

I dont even consider these wankers “hackers”, that’s giving them to much credit.

Anyway, if you need dough for a host, just ask I’ll be happy to help and get the site + forum back up again.

Posted by Mark
Tue, October 10th, 2006 @ 18:42

Hello Neil,

I’M OUT OF ME FOR THE TEAM!

REALLY CHEAP.

KEEP MORAL BUDDY!

Sylvain

Posted by Sylvain aka Don
Sun, October 15th, 2006 @ 09:46