914world.com down?

[930cabman]

Originally Posted by 914

Let’s after this all gets ironed out get a Thank You fund going to Andy..
914/Alan

+1, the staff at 914 World rocks and I agree with Alan all the way

[75 911s]

Hope this gets resolved soon. I miss 914 world!

[sithot]

+1 ^^^ This.

[ValcoOscar]

Thanks again to Pelican for hosting us teeners


Miss everyone


Quick reminder about an upcoming Pelican Cars & Coffee, Sat Dec 10th

Is anyone else going?

I plan on bringing several dozens of donuts to the Pelican booth to thank them

Oscar

[McLovin]

I’ve had a lot of 914s starting in the early 80s. I haven’t had one for 15 years, but I still followed 914world because you guys do the most amazing projects and have the best community of “car guys.” Hope you’re back soon!

[pete-stevers]

Originally Posted by GregAmy

paypal@sirandy.org

It'll come up as Andreas Schmidt

Donation sent!
Andy and the crew do a lot for this community, He has spent a lot of time keeping the world up and running.

[fetus]

Hopefully they do routine backups. Curious how they got in? Password hack or got into the root OS some how?

[URY914]

Black and White Friday

[URY914]

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[SirAndy]

Originally Posted by fetus

Hopefully they do routine backups. Curious how they got in? Password hack or got into the root OS some how?

One of the admin accounts was compromised (password hacked, possibly through their phone) which allowed the hackers to gain access to the administrative part of the website.

Luckily, they didn't gain access to the server itself.

Yes, we do have backups, but unfortunately due to the nature of the deletions, it's not as easy as rolling back the latest database backup.
I'm still working my way through restoring and i'm hoping we'll be able to recover with minimal losses.

Worst case scenario right now would mean we'll lose the last two months of posts. I really hope that won't be the case.

[handyherr]

Thank you for all your hard work getting the site back up. It is greatly appreciated.

[914werke]

[914werke]

Originally Posted by SirAndy

One of the admin accounts was compromised (password hacked, possibly through their phone) which allowed the hackers to gain access to the administrative part of the website.

WOW, w/o outing the Admin is it too early to confirm the hack was via phone? And If not, is it possible to determine if it was an Apple or Android phone that was the culprit?

[914werke]

[fetus]

Originally Posted by SirAndy

One of the admin accounts was compromised (password hacked, possibly through their phone) which allowed the hackers to gain access to the administrative part of the website.

Luckily, they didn't gain access to the server itself.

Yes, we do have backups, but unfortunately due to the nature of the deletions, it's not as easy as rolling back the latest database backup.
I'm still working my way through restoring and i'm hoping we'll be able to recover with minimal losses.

Worst case scenario right now would mean we'll lose the last two months of posts. I really hope that won't be the case.

Thanks for the update Sir Andy!! Sad that someone would do that to a car site.
Thanks again for supporting and maintaining our addiction.

[x98boardwell]

Thanks for the updates! Hoping she'll be back up and running soon.

[SirAndy]

A quick update on the progress (or lack thereof) but let me first say that i really appreciate all the support from everyone.
914world wouldn't be what it is without y'all.



The Good:
- Almost all topics and posts are still intact
- Only 5 user accounts have been impacted, mine included. I was banned!

The Bad:
- Topics and posts were completely scrambled when the main forums were deleted. Unfortunately unscrambling them is a somewhat manual process that will take more time.

The Ugly:
- There is evidence that suggests this might not have been a random attack

[DGW]

Originally Posted by SirAndy

The Ugly:
- There is evidence that suggests this might not have been a random attack

for gods sake, somebody practicing on world before the big attack somewhere else?