Someone hacking websites under my name - The drama never stops.

So today I got a email notifying me of a PM here on AdminBB so I go to check it and apparently someone has been hacking forums and websites under my name and then redirecting it to AdminBB. This is not the first time that people have been posing as me but this seems to be the worse. I dont even have a clue how to hack forums. I really wish I knew who was behind this.

Here is the PM I received:


http://forumpromotion.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=78549&start=15

 

How did he get your IP? He said the IPs were the same...
I don't suspect you or anything it's obvious you're being framed, though your avatar would definitely make an awesome hacker picture lol

I hope you catch whoever's framing you.

 

Thats a question I would like to know as well. Kaiser isn't someone to hack a site, so the 'taking action' would turn out pointless. Also that thread has no one else who says there 'taking action' to Kaiser either.

 

I didnt get what me meant by the "IP's matched".. I was bit confused with that too. He probably made that up/exaggerated on that because where would he get my IP anyway to match with the person who hacked his site? He probably said that to scare me. I just hope this gets solved.

 

There I have merged it for you, but there is no way my IP can match unless he just completely lied on that part to scare me. Its seems hes selling his domain now and hasn't said anything else to me about my ip matching to that of who hacked his site.

 

Sorry to hear that mate, I remember when someone accused me of hacking, and it's not pleasant

Someone must really be pissed off to do such a thing and point the blame (perhaps someone who has got pissed off about the sale of AdminBB ???), but as far as I'm concerned, you are one of the most honest guys I know.

Whoever owns the site hosting the image from: http://beckyweltoncmp.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/kkk1.jpg is most likely to blame for this

 

Thanks Ashley means alot. I have had a few enemies in my time foruming, but I have been very inactive ever since June so I cant thing of anyone with the grudge against me at the moment. As for the image.. good point you make but it can also be that the the hacker just did a quick google search of the kkk and linked to that picture.

 

And the reason all those sites got hacked in the first place was because of the host's server security.. in most hacking cases it is the host to blame for having crappy security. People need to be very careful when choosing a web host.. if they need some help they can go through the thousands of posts right here on adminbb.

 

I did'nt think of that

I agree, if people insist on using free hosts that have only been around for a few weeks/months, they are only looking for trouble...

 

I didn't meant to scare or flame anyone just putting facts together but if you say it's not you I will trust you.. Thanks for taking you time to consider this.

 

In your PM's you were obviously accusing me even after I said it wasn't me. You also tried to scare me which didn't work. You should go through some posts here on how to stay safe from hackers. As for hosts you can check out this forum. Spend some time here and read some threads, they should help you. Good luck

 

OK Guys, can we please try and keep civil and not go blaming each other, there is enough forum drama, and we don't need it here as well.

@noreturn: In future if you ever do get hacked again, remember that you can't just go round accusing people and then post and say "I didn't meant to scare or flame anyone but if you say it's not you I will trust you.." afterwards you need to get your facts straight first before going round and accusing people via PM. I suggest you take the advice from @Kaiser and look through these forums to help prevent it from happening again in the future.

 

Actually, Ashley.S. wasn't the only one being blamed for hacking forums. I was as well. But like Ashley.S., I have neither the skills nor the knowledge needed to totally deface a forum. I'm sure you probably need good HTML, CSS and probably even CSS +, but I don't have any of those skills at all, so it would be very hard for anyone to accuse me of hacking a site. For starters, I didn't take enough computer classes in high school to really get to know CSS and HTML.

 

I still think "hacking" is an over used word, 9/10 it is the admins fault for using insecure passwords, that is password cracking, not hacking...

If the host was attacked, it was probably either because of poor security on the hosts side and that they got rooted or the owner had been using insecure passwords and a simple brute force attack managed to let them in as posted here: http://forumpromotion.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=827270#p827270 the owner of the host said that their reseller, email, MSN & FP account got attacked as well which suggests to me that weak passwords/using the same password for everything is to blame for this...

 

I've been hacked, nothing special just suck it up and start again; Kaiser hope you find who ever framed you and it sounds like Glock (whatever his username is)

 

Why would it be him.. please don't openly accuse someone with no evidence. The sites getting hacked are all on his webhost, so what makes you think glock would do this?

 

I had been following this on FP. Sorry to hear that you are being framed, and I hope whoever it is is brought to justice.