progpower europe website down?

usaprogmusic · March 20th, 2008, 10:45 PM

is anyone else having problems getting onto the ProgPower Europe website?

renejanssen · March 21st, 2008, 03:25 AM

Hi,

The website was hacked!!!! We use Joomla, the open source CMS but unfortunately some assholes hacked the website. Don't ask me what the fun is to do this, but there are some people on this planet who enjoy things like this. I simply don't get it.

Our hosting partner tries to save the databases, but if things can't be recovered we have to build up the site from scratch! We will do our best but we don't think the website will be back until next week.

Sorry for this.

Rene

Rev. Clayton · March 21st, 2008, 08:37 AM

That sucks...a lot.

But at least you can get frustration out on this board.

GreggSuspyre · March 21st, 2008, 01:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by renejanssen

Hi,

The website was hacked!!!! We use Joomla, the open source CMS but unfortunately some assholes hacked the website. Don't ask me what the fun is to do this, but there are some people on this planet who enjoy things like this. I simply don't get it.

Our hosting partner tries to save the databases, but if things can't be recovered we have to build up the site from scratch! We will do our best but we don't think the website will be back until next week.

Sorry for this.

Rene

I noticed this the other day. I went to the site and got some terrible one-pager written in Polish (I believe) whose title was something like "Hakkz0red!"

Too bad...hope to see it back up soon.

MetalAges · March 22nd, 2008, 10:25 AM

I've had this happen before on some client sites. With Joomla, you have to keep it 100% up to date (including any mods you add to it) as security patches are released or you will most assuredly get hacked at some point. Also, I would not be surprised if you have some files they uploaded sitting on your server so check every file/folder by date and look for new files you do not recognize.

If you rebuild, you may want to look into using Wordpress as a CMS.

March 20th, 2008, 10:45 PM	#1 (permalink)
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March 22nd, 2008, 10:25 AM	#5 (permalink)
MetalAges Ultimate Metal admin Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 86,551	I've had this happen before on some client sites. With Joomla, you have to keep it 100% up to date (including any mods you add to it) as security patches are released or you will most assuredly get hacked at some point. Also, I would not be surprised if you have some files they uploaded sitting on your server so check every file/folder by date and look for new files you do not recognize. If you rebuild, you may want to look into using Wordpress as a CMS. __________________ Deron :: ultimatemetal.com :: metalages.com :: progpowerusa.com

March 21st, 2008, 03:25 AM	#2 (permalink)
renejanssen Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 198	Hi, The website was hacked!!!! We use Joomla, the open source CMS but unfortunately some assholes hacked the website. Don't ask me what the fun is to do this, but there are some people on this planet who enjoy things like this. I simply don't get it. Our hosting partner tries to save the databases, but if things can't be recovered we have to build up the site from scratch! We will do our best but we don't think the website will be back until next week. Sorry for this. Rene

March 21st, 2008, 08:37 AM	#3 (permalink)
Rev. Clayton The Singer Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 411	That sucks...a lot. But at least you can get frustration out on this board.