All of you were asking me what was wrong ... Well, as you know that my IT knowledge is almost ZERO .. but I will say my side of the story.

The website was hacked .. The hacker did some things (which I don't understand) and the host actually banned our account .. It happened before, Megamoe fixed the website and things were normal. However, this time, Megamoe was travelling the next morning when our website was suspended by the service provider 8O 8O ... He gave the website keys and passwords to Antrax (Hani) .. and left the country ...

Hani kept on checking the website trying to understand how it works .. Managed to solve all the problems, changed all the website codes, add some security issues and called the host to get the website back .. They did not approve and requested the following:
- More security
- Upgrade the website version
- Clean some worms on the website

The funny thing is .. Megamoe is out of the country ... The main communication between me and him when he is out was the website and our AD4x4 e-mail (Both were not working ) and his phone number in Jordan was stored in a PM I had from him so no communication line ...

Again another sleepless night for antrax (he was up for 48 hours non stop) .. On a phone call this morning with Antrax, we decided to have the website running tonight at any cost (Megamoe will be back on Sunday .. so we cannot have the website down for more than this) ..

We used an outside consultant service (Actually the best in UAE) .. we gave him our website backups .. told him the story .. and the site is back again ..

There are some small issues which have to wait till Megamoe comes back like the avatars, Contributor sign and some other small things .. But at least the website is running again.

I should actually give all the credit of bringing the website back to life to Antrax .. I didn't do any thing .. I was just following up with him ... so Thank you very much Antrax for the hard work to get the website back .. Can't thank you enough for what you did for us

Ofcourse everybody want to know the SMS and phone calls count :
- 750 SMS (Some members send me more than 30 SMS in the last 2 days).
- Phone calls .. Didn't count but Diver can tell you thet my phone didn't stop ringing
- 12 Facebook mails
And a new one .. an e-mail from belbassiouni on my work e-mail (He is my colleague so he preferred to use the office e-mail to ask) ..

Thank God that the siteis working now

and special thanks to you Iguana and to Antrax for the effort.

Actually , the internet is boaring without AD4x4

iguana wrote:Ofcourse everybody want to know the SMS and phone calls count :

- Phone calls .. Didn't count but Diver can tell you thet my phone didn't stop ringing

Sorry Iguana, i can't tell work secrets

Thanks ANTRAX, you are a life saver

WildFire wrote:Thank God that the siteis working now

and special thanks to you Iguana and to Antrax for the effort.

Actually , the internet is boaring without AD4x4

Too right! - Logged on and didn't what to do .... ended up trawling any jeep site I could find in between checking the site every few minutes to see if it was back online

Thanks Antrax your the man 8)

and ofcourse thanks to the big boss

AD4x4 is back

thaaaaaaanks haaaaani
and heey hackers we will catch you and we will bury you in the middle of the desert so leeeeeave us alooone

iguana wrote: Ofcourse everybody want to know the SMS and phone calls count :
- 750 SMS (Some members send me more than 30 SMS in the last 2 days).
- Phone calls .. Didn't count but Diver can tell you thet my phone didn't stop ringing
- 12 Facebook mails
And a new one .. an e-mail from belbassiouni on my work e-mail (He is my colleague so he preferred to use the office e-mail to ask) ..

Dear Iguana,

i knew the last two days that something is wrong with the website, but i also knew that a lot of people would call you and Moe to know whats going on.

That was the reason why i did not call you.

Thanks to all ( incl. AnTrax ) which made it possible to bring the site back to normal.


Uwe

Thx allot guys. i'm glad the website is up and running again.. i had to charge the two batteries of my mobile phone three times a day to keep up with iguana's calls loool

here is some information i was able to get about our hacker:

Nick Name: xiang
agae: probably below 25. (his files had all funny names such as f*** and B****)
purpose of hacking: spam/fraud
nationality: Pilipino or he speaks tagalog
location: UNKNOWN

i traced some of the files uploaded to our website to a web address owned/managed by this person:


personname: H a n s R e i s i n g e r
organization: S k i s c h u l e L a c k e n h o f
street address: Tei ch wie se 12
postal code: D - 3 2 9 5
city: Lackenhof
country: Deutschland
phone: +4 3 7 4 8 0 5 8 2 8
fax-no: +4 3 7 4 8 0 5 8 3 9
e-mail:
nic-hdl: S L 1 7 6 4 3 4 5 - N I C A T
source: AT-DOM


My best guess is this person is just another victim of this hacker..

Thanks once again Hani .. now we have to watch every member the register in our website

1. Thank God ,,,,
2. Thank Iguana,,,,
3 , Thank Thank ,,,,

iguana wrote:Ofcourse everybody want to know the SMS and phone calls count :
- 750 SMS (Some members send me more than 30 SMS in the last 2 days).
- Phone calls .. Didn't count but Diver can tell you thet my phone didn't stop ringing
- 12 Facebook mails
And a new one .. an e-mail from belbassiouni on my work e-mail (He is my colleague so he preferred to use the office e-mail to ask) ..

You should post your home address for easy access in case this problem occurs again

A BIG THANK YOU TO HANI & IGUANA.

Thanks a lot for your effort, Hani!

What would we do whithout you?