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The Chetboard seems to have been hacked.

Postby abaggetta » Sat Sep 29, 2018 11:09 am

Seems like the board has been hacked. Anyone do anything about it?
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Re: The Chetboard seems to have been hacked.

Postby Doug Working » Sat Sep 29, 2018 8:36 pm

When did the hacking occur?

What information was stolen?
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Re: The Chetboard seems to have been hacked.

Postby abaggetta » Sun Sep 30, 2018 1:16 pm

When I go to new messages all I see is lists of weird ads. Are you seeing this or is this on my machine only?
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Re: The Chetboard seems to have been hacked.

Postby Doug Working » Sun Sep 30, 2018 1:40 pm

My messages was normal. (Just now checked.)
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Re: The Chetboard seems to have been hacked.

Postby LMark » Sun Sep 30, 2018 2:31 pm

If you log in and make BrantOr a "foe" then his posts will not appear for you. LMark
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Re: The Chetboard seems to have been hacked.

Postby Spadaro Paolo » Sun Sep 30, 2018 4:17 pm

Done, but does not disappear.

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Re: The Chetboard seems to have been hacked.

Postby Wayne Canning » Sun Sep 30, 2018 7:16 pm

FYI:
On my system:
Under Announcement and News
by BrantOr
Presently lists 3918 Topics 157 Pages Even though BrantOr is Marked as "foe"
The Messages are updated once each minute and are still displayed.

Thanks, Take Care
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Re: The Chetboard seems to have been hacked.

Postby LMark » Thu Oct 04, 2018 4:52 pm

Yeah. Maybe he got deep enough to nullify the feature. Don't know. But now his posts or posting seems to have diminished. LMark
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Re: The Chetboard seems to have been hacked.

Postby BillB » Fri Oct 05, 2018 8:50 am

Yeah, it looks to me like offender and his/her posts have been removed. That was a deluge.

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Re: The Chetboard seems to have been hacked.

Postby jay » Fri Oct 05, 2018 1:49 pm

It's a bot. they have gotten good.
You can ban users, IP's ... to no avail to the smart bots.
the Chet Board confirmation question can be answered through google...therefore registration of bots is possible. I run a forum and we had to come up with a question that could not be answered through google, because of recent spam, like what we have seen here ... like what are the 5th, 6th, and 7th letters, inclusive of spaces, in the title of this forum? The odds of getting those three letters in a row by a bot are remote...at least for now.

Hats off to our Admin here....It is a continual battle and a pain in the ass for an administrator to stay on top of spam in todays world. Not enough appreciation is shown.
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