cgchat got pwnt!

aesir · May 2006

if you go to cgchat right now you'll find that their site got hacked. Its all flashy now...

mildly amusing and hopefully easy to fix.

http://www.cgchat.com/forum/

Weiser_Cain · May 2006

Yeah, find out who did it and bomb his city. Problem solved.

hawken · May 2006

zomg someone has some serious time on their hands to hack phpbb2

hope they come back to life

MoP · May 2006

Ouch, unlucky. I hope it gets fixed soon.

Tulkamir · May 2006

Owch! Haha, that's harshly shitty.

I'm with Hawken... someone has way too much goddamn time on their hands.

Mark Dygert · May 2006

that sucks

CheapAlert · May 2006

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zomg someone has some serious time on their hands to hack phpbb2

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it was vB.

KDR_11k · May 2006

That's not a hack, General Corum reached their server and blew it to pieces, now they're trying to cover up by pretending they just got hacked and their admin WASN'T decapitated.

Joseph Silverman · May 2006

Hopefully this'll get cleared up easily enough.

hawken · May 2006

someone better act fast.

"pixellation" was a forum with thousands of members that once dissapeared overnight, dispersing the whole community

Luxury · May 2006

oXYnary · May 2006

Whose next? Could it be us? Should we all start acting nice to one another so we don't piss off the potential hacker (*cough*KDR*cough*) here?

__hides under bed in fear__

rooster · May 2006

I miss pixellation

Downsizer · May 2006

If they know what they are doing and the damage was only to the forums and sql databases, this is a 30 min fix.

Granted i'm giving them credit that they make daily backups and keep them onsite.

Slum · May 2006

I miss Pixellation too

I believe this was a case of somebody exploiting commonly known vulnerabilities in the vBulletin system. You've got to keep up with patches and versions, especially in forums. With so much user interactivity, there are a lot more opprotunities for problems.

CMB · May 2006

It could be Jack Thomson and his gang of cyber freedom fighters.

snemmy · May 2006

that sucks

ElysiumGX · May 2006

somewhere, a sharp dressed computer genius is drinking a dry martini and surrounded by beautiful half naked woman...or a teenager with acne is at his mom's house whacking off for successfully corrupting a forum for artists. that'll teach us a lesson!

looks like it's being fixed. hope it's back up soon. when's the next challenge?

- FredH - · May 2006

I am officially homeless for the next few days.....

gauss · May 2006

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Whose next? Could it be us?

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fear not, people. remember that board downtime just a few days back? that was an upgrade and patch maneuver expressly to prevent that sort of thing from happening. we are all very, very, very lucky to have an admin behind the scenes that is dedicated to security and stability issues, to say nothing of improved useability. so thanks, Vito.

Fred, you and any of your crew are of course welcome to slum it over here at polycount in the meantime

conte · May 2006

I just wanted to check up, that there with competition. In fact I did for it ninja model.
Features as it is soooo pity!

kat · May 2006

I remember being told a story (folklore) of a hacker that got caught in india after he had hacked into a lot of local 'establishments' causing a lot of mayhem.

Rather than send the guy to jail, the police chopped off his (dominant) right hand!.

spacemonkey · May 2006

that sucks.. but it doesn remind me to post this link;

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/4977134.stm

its a weird article reporting some conspiracy nut who hacked Nasa, trying to prove they are covering up an Alien conspiracy!

Sage · May 2006

This blows, I hope they are back soon.

Supervlieg · May 2006

Yeah, that sucks. Anyone know when they get things running again?

KDR_11k · May 2006

As soon as all their members have a Polycount forum account.

Ramucho · May 2006

haha lol kdr!

Weiser_Cain · May 2006

Oh yes Spacemonkey, they're going to give that nut mitnick's cell, hope he's a good fighter and light sleeper.

andrei313 · May 2006

Does anybody know what is happening to cgchat ? I loved that forum... it would be nice to see it up soon.

SHEPEIRO · May 2006

whats the point, unless it was someone who hadnt got their comp entry on time

shifty

SHEPEIRO · May 2006

looks like cgtalks gone down, dont know why, maybe theyre taking us out one at a time, just like in the movies, dont split up whatever you do. are you wearing red eww bad sign

bearkub · May 2006

As you may have read in the very first post of this thread, CGChat got hacked about a week a go or so. I am sure they are doing what they can to get the site back on online.

Mister Sentient · May 2006

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looks like cgtalks gone down, dont know why, maybe theyre taking us out one at a time, just like in the movies, dont split up whatever you do. are you wearing red eww bad sign

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CGTalk is up for me.

bearkub · May 2006

oh, HA. I read cgtalk as cgchat. That will teach me to read a little better.

Wells · May 2006

Until its back up, I'm going to claim I won the last contest.

Hooray for me!

Joao Sapiro · May 2006

somehow i imagine one of those 15 yers old kids with a colection of 50 000 mp3 of nirvana and with a bowl like haircut laughing becaudse he "PWND cgchat!!11"

its sad...i hope that they get back online

KDR_11k · May 2006

somehow i imagine one of those 15 yers old kids with a colection of 50 000 mp3 of nirvana and with a bowl like haircut laughing becaudse he "PWND cgchat!!11"

He's only laughing until he realizes that hacking is a felony punishable by up to 15 years of jailtime.

steady · May 2006

dang, its been about a week or two so far,
why do you guys think its taking so long?

Luxury · May 2006

I didn't want to mention it, but I'm fairly certain it was a polycount member. After winning the Dominance War, someone here felt that since CGChat was defeated and therefore meant to be put to death. Am I right? Which one of you was it?!?

KDR_11k · May 2006

Well, not me, no matter what the others claim. I know people who could do that but CG Chat isn't even worth the attention for hacking it.

I think it's a bunch of script kiddies that are proud that they managed to read a tutorial on how to exploit some board system weakness and now are going through Google's lists and trying it on every page they find. You know, because they think that makes them unresistable for women.

andrei313 · May 2006

Is Apt Pupil out there to let us know what is happening ? ... or someone who knows...

hawken · May 2006

come on guys, it's in bad taste to suggest someone here did it.

lets hope they don't fall down the path of obscurity. where else will I get my Maya knowledge!!

SHEPEIRO · May 2006

cgtalk was only down for a bit but i did have this quick blair whitch felling, including the snivling

- FredH - · May 2006

Cgchat will be back in a few days

It is undergoing some revisions and upgrades.

SHEPEIRO · May 2006

Vailias · May 2006

I figured they were taking this occurance as an excuse to upgrade and clense.
Look forward to the return.

andrei313 · May 2006

That is a very good news!

prototyp3 · May 2006

I feel so displaced. This is like a digital Katrina.

Ninjas · May 2006

Thanks for the update Fred!

Wells · May 2006

Its back up, in case you hadn't noticed.

MoP · May 2006

Oooh, they've been redecorating!

cgchat got pwnt!

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