http://www.hotscripts.com

Thats site must make a fortune out of advertising.

Hmmm i wonder what they lose from advertising every hour they down like that.

They have 4,000 users on the site at a time... The amount of impressions those ads get is astonishing.

One sale for a hosting company brings $40 - $50 they must get quite a lot of those every day. Let alone those who pay to adertise on the site.

Hmmm quite interesting maybe i know what business i should be in

LOL!! Sucks for them.

lol...spykids. What a lame hacking name.

i wonder what they actually hacked though my sql or what hmmmmm

brooky how did they hack ur server that one time , i prolly think it was an injection but how did they do it , jw

Apache was running a nobody and I fooloshly left the forums config chmod to 777 file. To this day I am amazed how foolish that was. I religioulsy check things like that.

THat was they config file was easily rewritten dropping the database.

No I only give very limited access rights to mySql users.

OMFG ROFL. LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

That brings me to another question brooky (or anybody else who knows):

To what do I set the files and folders in my store to not have this happen to me?
Not that I have or ever will have a high traffic site (more so locally I hope)

Just make sure admin/config.inc.php is set to 644 if you have a unix type system.

spykids have written a variant of the phpbb forum worm which exploits up to one of the very latest version of phpBB.
It will searach through the whole machine/server trying to overwrite web pages with that text.
Chances are hotscripts.com wasnt directly hacked buy one of the other hosted website on the same box was.

John - the security guy

damn lol who are these poeple

Yes that is what seems to have happed on the site. you can read a news post the admin of hotscripts made about it. I think there is a link on there site to it..