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ring0s
14-11-2001, 13:04
THERE IS NO EASY WAY TO SAY ..... but my website was hacked last between the hours of 10.30 pm tuesday 13TH and 11.20am wedensday 14th NOVEMBER!


A WEB BOT WAS ATTACHED TO THE SUBMIT BUTTONS AND ATTEMPTED TO RE DIRECT CUSTOMER ORDERS!

THIS WOULD ONLY HAVE AFFECTED ANY ONE WHO PLACED AN ORDER BETWEEN 10.30 pm tuesday 13TH and 11.20am wedensday 14th NOVEMBER!

IF YOU PLACED AN ORDER DURING THOSE TIMES AND SAW THE "THANK YOU" PAGE AFTER HITTING THE SUBMIT BUTTON PLEASE
CANCEL YOUR CARD NOW!

IF YOU PLACED AN ORDER DURING THOSE TIMES AND SAW THE "INTERNAL ERROR "PAGE AFTER HITTING THE SUBMIT BUTTON
THEN YOU NEED DO NOTHING as the server software refused to process the re direct command!

as of this momment in time my server people assure me that all attempts to redirect orders will have resulted in the " INTERNAL ERROR " message HOWEVER I FELL DUTY BOND TO WARN ANYONE WHO PLACED AN ORDER LAST NIGHT OF THE POSSIBLE SECURTIY BREACH!

THIS POST HAS BEEN CROSS THREADED INTO EVERY FROUM HERE AFTER LENGTHY DISCUSSIONS WITH ANDYW!

WHILST WE ALL THINK ( & HOPE) THE SERVER PEOPLE ARE CORRECT ITS SAFER TO BE HONEST WITH YOU ALL THAN RISK ANY POSSIBLE CARD MISSUSE!



my humblest apologies for any inconvenience cuased and i hope you all will not judge me to harshly over this matter and still fell safe in using us knowing that your personal details HAVE NEVER BEEN STORED ON PC OR SERVER AND THAT WE DO ACTAULLY HOLD A FILE CARD FOR EACH AND EVERY CUSTOMER WITHIN OUR EVER GROWING COLLECTION OF ROLODEX!

ring0s
14-11-2001, 18:22
NOTE TO ALL:

THE SITE IS NOW FULLY FUNCTIONAL . OUR SERVER PEOPLE STILL MAINTAIN NO ORDERS WENT ANYWHERE THEY SHOULDN'T HAVE , HOWEVER WE RECEIVED NO ORDERS WHILST THE WEBBOT WAS CAUSING AN INTERNAL ERROR!

EVERYTHING IS NOW SAFE!( WELL AS SAFE AS ANY OTHER WEBSITE!

the whole affair has confirmed my belief in NOT storing personal details online ( i'll NEVER store customers details online ) and boy do my ROLODEX look like a good investment right now!

ring0s
15-11-2001, 10:23
TO CLEAR UP WHAT DID AND DIDN'T HAPPEN YESTERDAY! :

the nasty WEBBOT tried to re-direct orders BUT WAS UNABLE to access the
cgi-script ,which is stored on the secure part of the site! therefore NO
ONES ORDERS went anywhere , they just failed to porcess! so although i didn't receive any orders during the stated times BT-WEBWORLD assure me absolutly no orders went anywhere they shouln't have and everyone who tried placing an order simply received a standard page from BT stting "INTERNAL SERVER ERROR" .

this should all make sense to those of you in the IT industry and maybe oneday someone will tell me how it happened?