Alert - GBATMW Hacked

I am sure a lot of you are already aware but just to be on the safe side, the website gbatmw.net was cracked last night; their homepage was replaced with some truly awful pictures. Today, they have a note posted telling people about it and to change your pwd if you use the same usr/pwd at other sites too. It was quite a shock as I was going to check for some new DPGs and I was visually assaulted. It took a while to fix from what I could tell.....Just an fyiedit: now it says "This account has been suspended."

just checked the site through google cache. Hopefully the break-in was through Tiny Portal and not SMF. :P
Sucks though, being hacked is never fun. =/

Replying to #2

I am not a developer but have worked with them in the past. Trying to understand what you meant above, but a g00gl search didn't help me too much. If I had to give some sort of answer, it looks to me like they are different web scripting engine/interface/sources such as forms, forums, page builders and what-not.Can you help explain the difference between Tiny Portal and SMF?

smf is the forum software, I don't know what tiny portal is but it sounds like a CMS (content management system)

It's back. It was indeed chuckstudios who did it (from gbatemp IRC channel, which I was there).

Replying to #5

Are you saying that "chuckstudios" is the handle of the person or group claiming responsibility for the defacement? Are they also bragging about how the crack was performed (php vuln, x-site, etc)?I saw some other posts from people saying it was back online also but I still can't get to it - unresponsive.

no, he's a single person. I'd like to know how he did it though.

Yes one pro guy. He said something about exploits in member logins or something.

The site is now running a different Forums software. I think it looks great considering the time they had to tear-down the original site, put up a new site (hardware, hosting location, etc), install the backup to new configuration, test-reconfigure-test-repeat, and then open back up to everyone.How can you guys see what this guy was talking about? Did he post this info somewhere? Why would a bad-guy want to bring this kind of attention to them self (that is the weirdest question of all).