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Re: AmigaWorld.Net was hacked!
« on: January 11, 2012, 04:22:20 AM »
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News from zerohero via amigaworld.net


Dear amigaworld.net users,

We are sorry to admit it but it seems AmigaWorld.Net was hacked today. Most likely it wasn't our server the hacker got the passwords from, but we have no idea of knowing so far. We suggest everyone changes their password as quickly as possible.

We're sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused.

Regards,
AmigaWorld.Net staff

Since Trevor's accounts appear to have been hacked on all forum sites, it would appear that the hacker either A. decided to only pick on Trevor for some reason, or B. they some how compromised Trevor's passwords only, perhaps by breaking into his computer, or some other method.

Just to be safe, I am changing all my passwords and suggest that everyone do the same.  It is a good idea to do so periodically anyway.
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Re: AmigaWorld.Net was hacked!
« Reply #1 on: January 11, 2012, 06:01:10 PM »
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Judging by the friendly nature of hackers post at Morphzone it appears as if the hacker is somehow related to Trevor. A friend, an ex-friend, familymember or fellow member of some Amiga-site. That or we have the friendliest hacker ever :)

I totally agree with Karlos, this attack on Trevor was anything but "friendly".

It is a real shame that Trevor has had to put up with so much abuse when he is really trying hard to improve this tiny community knowing full well that he will never recoup the investment he has made, just trying to bring us better hardware to run OS4 on.  He deserves much better than that, even if you are one of the people that disagree with his choices (which mostly were not his choices anyway, as he left the specifications of the X1000 up to the OS4 developers and did not choose them himself).

Hopefully this won't happen again.  It was reported on AW.net that maybe more than one account was compromised, but I don't know who else had their accounts misused by the hacker.
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Is AW.net down?
« Reply #2 on: January 15, 2012, 01:24:26 PM »
I have not been able to get AmigaWorld.net to show up on any browser for the last 6 to 8 hours.  All I get is "waiting for" message at the bottom of Firefox and AW.net never loads.

Anyone else been able to get in there, or has the hacker that has been messing with Amiga sites been successful in taking it down completely?:angry:
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