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A Warning to the EQP99 Community: Database Hacking
With the recreation of The Mystical Order from the merging of two previously competing guilds to become stronger against opposition, the forums administrators of TheMysticalOrder.net quickly determined that something was amiss. With further research we found the possibility of a spy within the guild. That spy (or spies), however, had gone further than simply entering the ranks of a competing guild and reporting back to their own. It was obvious that a Transatlantic Rampage member had entered our ranks as not shortly after a post involving a bug was made public in the TMO forums (of which was removed and reported to the GMs considering it could be used for more than just harmless items) had been copied off of our forums and sent to the GMs.
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Not long thereafter, we had discovered a sum of suspicious illegal activity being recorded by the forum server. An individual with an IP that was a proxy or a VPN in the UK was logging in as one of the guild leaders/forum admins. The guild leader lives nowhere near the UK and was therefore an issue that was quickly looked into further. This IP was linked to an individual attempting to download backup copies of the entire forums database via the Admin Control Panel as well as other private intellectual property (coding/program) created by one of our other players. The posts viewed were very selective by the hacker and indicate a specific interest in Everquest related activity. Some of the activity recorded by the administrators includes the encrypted passwords of each and every member being downloaded and therefore compromised. Multiple non-existing portions of the site were accessed in attempts to fish further into the site. Whether or not the hacked download of the database and intellectual property succeeded lies in the hands of the individual that took such great measures to commit an illegal act. EDIT: I edited a pronoun in the phrase "had done it" to lessen confusion. | |||
Last edited by Aadill; 08-08-2011 at 02:48 PM..
Reason: i edited a pronoun!
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Yay, I'll have something to read today!
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It is a logical fallacy that because your database was hacked and because a TR member forwarded on an exploit you talked about (even in a "don't do this" way) on your member forums that a TR member hacked your database. We have had former/disgruntled TMO / DA in our app pool consistently for a solid 8 months, including apps received as recently as this morning. People offer us, unsolicited, a ridiculous amount of information about what goes on in your guild.
I am sorry you got hacked. I don't know jack and/or crap about database security, but it seems pretty out of line to point the finger without any actual evidence when this server is a cesspool of people who know entirely too much about the internet. We're not the only people your guild's leadership has pissed off. | ||
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The fact that anyone, TR or not, would get so obsessive over an emulated video game as to illegally hack into a guilds' forums is pretty fucking sad.
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Even if this information was provided by someone outside your guild as you say, wouldn't the ethical choice be to inform this other guild about who provided this information, and let them know that you were informing GMs?
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Yes, after every nice thing TMO has said about us and done for us, I think it's only fair we let them know every time one of their members tells us something embarassing about their guild.
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embarrassing for all involved
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Why is this a warning to this community? No one gives a damn about guild drama, especially if it's third party (IE non-official p1999) sites.
Half the players on p1999 I know for a fact don't care about this.
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Guild drama and illegal activity that affects players on this server are very different things
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