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It is with great sadness to report to some of you old-timers that the Crunchenstein Project Forums have been taken off-line, due to hackers.
There's a lot of rich history there, and a lot of it is from you old-timers here at TSWB.
While conversations have begun in an attempt to recover the complete forum, intact, there is also a real possibility it is also gone altogether. We are in the beginnings of this, and I will attempt to keep you all updated as it unfolds.
But for now, I wanted those who helped support the project and who kept tabs from time to time to know what was going on.
Respectfully
TransitMan
Director Crunchenstein Project
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Thanks for passing on the information Dan. A lot of history on the message board there. I was still checking it out regularly. It wasn't getting many visits of late.
Sad that people do these things.
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Gotta check some places, like Google -- some really old stuff is archived but no longer exists.
And seems to me there are a couple of history/archive sites that got almost everything ever on the web, saved.
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Might want to take a look at the archive, they crawl pages and maintain history of them.
http://www.archive.org/index.php
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Every page there required login so crawlers wouldn't have picked up a thing.
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"We're sorry, access to http://www.crunchenstein.net has been blocked by the site owner via robots.txt."
FAQ #3: I don't want my site's pages in the archive. How do I remove them?
By installing a robots.txt file on your web server, you can exclude your site from being archived, as well as block access to them on the archive. For information, see our FAQ about removing documents.
Unfortunate...
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That sucks.
Isn't Edward the site admin? If so, he should have made periodic backups of the forum database, so if you can determine when it happened, it should be fairly easy to restore to a point before that.
Gary
You can't fix dead.
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Was this just some stupid punks with nothing better to do, or was there some reason this particular site was hacked? Just seems stupid.
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Camelot One wrote
Was this just some stupid punks with nothing better to do, or was there some reason this particular site was hacked? Just seems stupid. I'd bet on the former.
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The site was hacked using PHP/MySQL injection flaws in the XMB forum software after first cracking Insuw's password. From my reading of various security forums, the net crawls with sleazeballs who do this for kicks, or worse.
All the files are safe, and have been recovered from backup. During the recovery process, the forum was restored, and within minutes, the cracker was back at it. The forum was wiped again, all admin passwords changed as well as the database password.
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www.socosystems.com
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Wonder if its the same person who keeps taking BBR down.
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Doubtful it's a person, bots are doing most of the dirty work now days.
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True but a person (or persons) controls the botnet. It is an odd coincidence that both BBR and the crunchy forum got attacked the same week.
Gary
You can't fix dead.
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True that is.
The Crunchy forum is back up and running again, with the latest upgrade of the forum software.
So life is once again good with the Crunchestein forum.
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Cool. Looks like it's over-secured though. 
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I'd say it's perfect security, you simply can't get in
Gary
You can't fix dead.
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