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"So, did Freeola get hacked or not?"

Well, we all know how much I loved my large collection of games and how long it took me to find them don't we?

Guess what.

They've gone.

So have the pictures.

So have my silly little flash animations and downloads.

So did the forum I had up.

I've just noticed that the forum didn't work when I checked on Monday. I don't know how, but whoever/whatever did it only deleted stuff from my folders containing the larger files. The folder with my reviews wasn't touched.

I'm annoyed now. Because I actually said I would back them all up because I haven't got a copy of them anymore! So I have no games.

:c(

I'm gonna email Freeola tomorrow just to find out if they had any problems. I've got to find all the piccies and get all the games back again now.

And re-upload them.

And pay money.

Damn.

This is Phil, P8ssed off, signing out to have a shower because I smell!

Goodbye.

For 15 minutes.

cjh wrote:
> How do you think the include thing was hacked exactly??

It doesn't want to work now. But before, if you entered a URL after that ?page= bit, it would load that page up. Thus allowing soeone with too much time the ability to do something...

I don't know how they'd do it but it could be something like including a file manager...

I wasn't aware of how it could be done. Someone just told me that people could include external URLs, and he gave me another bit of code that excludes external URLS...

Don't ask me how it works, I was just told that but I can see some logic too it.

But as Pocketmonkey.co.uk has gone too I'd guess that someone's p*ssed about... I still don't get why they only deleted from a few folders though?

Monkeyman's sites gone too, so it wasn't your site exclusively. Besides, Freeola claim that they make regular back-up's of websites so I doubt all is lost...

Phi11ip may suck, but that doesn't explain why my FREEOLA site has gone missing :(

I demand vengance! And blood, definitely blood.

Phi11ip sucks.

Turbonutter wrote:
> I think the answer is simple.

... please elaborate :)

You could make the most out of a bad situation.

Put a paypal thing on your website and say you were hacked, explaining that donations will be necessary to get the site back to full strength again.

I think the answer is simple.

I'm pleased to see my sites are still up on Freeola, so that suggest to me that Freeola wern't hacked.

Could it also be possible that Freeola have removed the files because they were using to much bandwidth?? Was your site popular?? Were they very large files?

How do you think the include thing was hacked exactly??

You mean someone may have run their external 'hack' code through your web page structure??

While I was in the shower I came up with a big possibility.

Someone found a gaping hole in one of my PHP scripts that I've got. I know what it could be, it's to do with the page include thingy...

I'm gonna change it to another one I've got now, this one reads the file from the root directory of the server so you can't include external pages, which could have been the problem.

Seeing how it went on Sunday too, I'd guess this 'hacky' thing might be behind it...

I'll email Freeola and see if they took any backups before the weekend, hopefully they did.

*crosses fingers*