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    #122
    Redisle
    Registered Users Posts: 1,849 ✭✭✭Redisle


    Well handled lads, actually heard about it first on the 6-1 news! Really shows how big this site has grown! Good advice too regarding the passwords, only used the same one on one other site but it could have done with a change anyway.


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    #123
    Thomas828
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,492 ✭✭✭Thomas828


    Hi, everyone! It's great to have you all back on line! The folks on boards.ie handled that crisis like the professionals they are. They're the ones who should be in government, not the clowns we have now.


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    #124
    Slogger Jogger
    Registered Users Posts: 5,441 ✭✭✭Slogger Jogger


    Well done for the prompt and comprehensive response. Great to have ye back online.


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    #125
    nesf
    Registered Users Posts: 27,645 ✭✭✭✭nesf


    Cheers guys. Thanks especially for keeping us informed on Twitter. That gave some entertainment while the site was down! :p


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    #126
    RobFowl
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 11,667 Mod ✭✭✭✭RobFowl


    Well done and thank you for all the hard work done to get the site back on line so quickly.


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    #127
    Saibh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,431 ✭✭✭✭Saibh


    Overheal wrote: »
    Thank God - my caffeine-free solidarity is over. I had already fallen off my chair in Work.

    Your post has made it onto the BBC website :D
    Site users have welcomed the return of Boards.ie with one poster noting: "Thank God - my caffeine-free solidarity is over. I had already fallen off my chair in work."


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    #128
    Thekk08
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1 ✭Thekk08


    any word on when adverts might be back up lads?


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    #129
    dancin
    Registered Users Posts: 666 ✭✭✭dancin


    Well done to all at HQ. It's tough when a production system goes down for any reason, the external attacks really suck (have a few of those t-shirts myself).

    Well done on the excellent communications and in getting everything back up and running.

    It's great to have this essential service back :-)

    Pity I can't access my registration e-mail address. I don't envy you having to sort out all the people in the same boat as me. It's only a username, but it's like an old friend at this stage :-)

    Au revoir to 'dancin', hello to 'dancineile' - Imaginative, huh?


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    #130
    gmt
    Registered Users Posts: 236 ✭✭gmt


    That would probably be of help to a lot of people.
    CrazyRabbit wrote: »
    Might I suggest a course of action?

    If someone contacts boards.ie to say they have forgotten their email address used to sign up, but can provide their username, then:
    1. Reply with the first 4 letters of the email address on file for that account.
    2. This may help the person remember the full email address and they can reset the password as normal.

    If the email account no longer exists, then;
    1. Wait a few weeks.
    2. If the account remains untouched (with password not reset), then it's reasonably safe to assume that the person claiming the account as there is telling the truth.

    ....The above is just off the top of my head. I'm knackered and probably haven't thought everything through. :D


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    #131
    dr.bollocko
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,943 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    Congrats guys on getting her back up. Jaysus that must have been the worst couple of days of work evar!
    Thanks to team Double D. I was really starting to enjoy the hell out of twitter. I got like 20 followers out of it.
    Now to feed them my zany right wing political beliefs in haiku form.


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    #132
    FredH3ad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46 ✭FredH3ad


    Thanks a bunch boards. Now I have to change all my other site passwords :mad::mad::mad::mad:


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    #133
    DonnieBrasco
    Registered Users Posts: 169 ✭✭DonnieBrasco


    fcukreg wrote: »
    Was the media in Belfast & Derry notified...? Irish news, Derry Journal, Belfast Telegraph, BBC NI, Downtown etc

    I hope so, as boards.ie has an all-Ireland user base.


    Doesn't look like it though based on boards.ie reports on media contacts..
    "Composed a Press Release and released it to relevant media.
    Contacted the Press Office of RTE.ie to organise/facilitate 6.1 News report to broaden the reach of our notice."

    "Responded to media queries including RTE news, The Last Word on TodayFM, KCLR FM, Techcentral.ie, Sunday Business Post, Irish Daily Mail, Metro Herald."

    reported this morning
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/8473824.stm
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/22/irish_board_hack/


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    #134
    chasm
    Registered Users Posts: 2,078 ✭✭✭chasm


    Great to have you back guys, as the song says "you don't know what you got till it's gone"
    We arent even a full month into the year but i think the team surely deserve one of their own boards.ie awards :-)


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    #135
    sprinkles
    Registered Users Posts: 4,510 ✭✭✭sprinkles


    Jaysus, you really don't know how much you love something til it's gone! I was at a loss yesterday... wandering around the tinternet like a lost soul. God only knows how many times I refreshed the notice page... that sad! Anyway, great to have ye back!!


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    #136
    randylonghorn
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 29,509 Mod ✭✭✭✭randylonghorn


    I bet it was the Covies getting their revenge!! :pac:

    I was so tempted to text Dav and ask did he try turning it off and turning it on again, but I reckoned that the response would probably melt my mobile!! :D


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    #137
    Tragedy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,057 ✭✭✭Tragedy


    Awesome work on keeping people informed and in the loop, kudos on that.

    Rather dissappointed at how cynically it seemed to be turned into a PR exercise though, both through twitter and pushing it in the news. Ah well, exposure is good I guess!


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    #138
    Bog
    Registered Users Posts: 463 ✭✭Bog


    Well done to all involved. Kudos.


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    #139
    johnnyskeleton
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 14,469 Mod ✭✭✭✭johnnyskeleton


    It was the government/mainstream media trying to crush boards before DeV could tell us all his political plans to lead us to utopia.

    Did anyone else see the smug looks on the RTE news presenter's faces? "We get to keep our overpaid jobs for at least another year because of this" their eyes were saying.


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    #140
    Random
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,082 ✭✭✭✭Random


    My name is Jack Bauer tom murphy (dev/conor/dav/darragh/whoever), and this is the longest day of my life.

    so .. anyways .. couple more questions .. i'm interested!
    = can you give us more details as to how the admin account was compromised?
    = was it the vbullietin admin account or the server one?
    = how was it detected so quick? do you have alerts setup or something? or was this a slow response time relative to what it should be?
    = what have you spent the last 36 hours doing?


    thanks :)


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    #141
    tonymahoney
    Registered Users Posts: 71 ✭✭tonymahoney


    Congratulations, on your excellent and professional handling of this matter- a challenge to all concerned!!!


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    #142
    Kinetic^
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,249 ✭✭✭✭Kinetic^


    DEY TUK UR DEYTABASS!


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    #143
    Steve
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 22,584 CMod ✭✭✭✭Steve


    Kudos on the way this was handled, very professional.

    I dread to think what could would have happened this time last year.
    Thekk08 wrote: »
    any word on when adverts might be back up lads?
    No, thank God. The mods have the night off and are availing of this infrequent event to consume beer! :D


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    #144
    Sarky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31,967 ✭✭✭✭Sarky


    randylonghorn wrote: »
    I was so tempted to text Dav and ask did he try turning it off and turning it on again, but I reckoned that the response would probably melt my mobile!! :D

    This is the time I usually have a nice glass of whisky as I browse in a leisurely fashion. I'm glad I didn't do it tonight, spitting good scotch at monitors is a terrible waste.


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    #145
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users Posts: 29,294 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    glad to see you got things sorted, well done and thanks for the various press releases and site updates, was a tough couple of days without you

    <hugs laptop>

    ;)

    PS, was boards UK affected by this breech, cant display them since boards went down

    :confused:


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    #146
    jd007
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,094 ✭✭✭jd007


    FredH3ad wrote: »
    Thanks a bunch boards. Now I have to change all my other site passwords :mad::mad::mad::mad:

    Yes because it was all boards fault.:rolleyes:

    And you shouldn't have the same password for other sites.


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    #147
    AckwelFoley
    Registered Users Posts: 12,556 ✭✭✭✭AckwelFoley


    Id love to be able to log back in as my usual self.

    Unfortunatley the email account i used when i set up in July 2006 was haxzored by the FBI and i no longer can use it as its pending in a case against me*.

    Yours sincerely

    Snyper :(








    *may not be true, may be because it was an old work email, in aplace i dont work anymore :/


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    #148
    johnny_adidas
    Registered Users Posts: 1,977 ✭✭✭johnny_adidas


    well done lads, made me realise even more how much i depend on the site to break up a day or for general info.
    unfortunately the time off has shown my boss how productive i can actually be, lets hope he's not expecting the same next week!!


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    #149
    Mort5000
    Registered Users Posts: 419 ✭✭Mort5000


    Thanks for the efficient and professional response.
    Well done!

    Gammmeee onnnnnn!!!! :)


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    #150
    Spiritoftheseventies
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,082 ✭✭✭✭Spiritoftheseventies


    that said great publicity for the boards. Was even on BBC website yesterday. Never knew if was a forum for quake game to begin with.


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    #151
    MFZ
    Registered Users Posts: 107 ✭✭MFZ


    copacetic wrote: »
    I understand that passwords being compromised is unlikely,

    Why that?
    They have (parts of) the user database. They had access to an administrative account.
    Chances are they have the salt, too.

    Cracking simple passwords is done quite quick.

    MFZ


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