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dakirbydude · #1 Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 7:58 pm

Seriously, it can. Especially when it's a forum that has lots of problems.

This is basically a complaint/vent topic so if you aren't interested don't read it. Anyway, I helped to run a conciderably large site named IFCA. I was an admin, and it got hacked last month. I had backups so I wasn't too worried, but apparently the hacker did some stuff to make the backups almost useless. The forum had over 100k posts which had been done in under a year so it was a decently sized site. And we used the backup but the hacker did a bunch of crap, so it wa not very helpful. Now after doing all we can do, we are left with barely 20,000 posts, and most of the important members accounts deleted.

But what makes it worse is who did it. 006 is the name of the hacker, and he was a member of our site since around the time we first made it, and that was the summer of 06. It was a free host back then and he seemed to be an awesome member and everything. But, we also had an autistic member who freaked out, and made 006 mad and also apparently upset. Also we had a poor secondary admin at the time of the first site, so that only made things worse. 006 was mad and said he would destroy us. The next month that seemed over and it appeared 006 was over it. But the worst part is he spent a whole year plotting every last detail of how to completely destroy the site, and he finally did it. Just the fact that somebody would have that much patience to cause that much trouble really makes me mad.

To say the least we have problems, and it's giving me a headache. Running forums is not fun.