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    Thumbs down Forum was Hacked

    The Forum was unavailable this morning as sometime between midnight last and 8 a.m., it was hacked into on the FTP server and all the scripts changed. Took me three hours to repair it and undo the damage, and it looks as though everything is still intact on posts and such.

    I throw several spammers off daily on the forum that are from India, the Philippines and Eastern Europe that have IP addresses from those countries so my guess is someone decided to get some retribution in return. They obviously compromised my passwords and were able to change all the programming scripts at the host server, but I was eventually able to restore the files. If you made a post or PM early this morning and its not there, you may want to resubmit.
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