The Hub hacked!

[RR]

Dear Hubbers

The Hub was hacked on Tuesday 8 November 2011 evening by some miscreants who, unable to handle civil iscussions, attacked in the most cowardly manner. We took the forums down to facilitate investigations by the cyber crime unit and we thank you for your patience. The investigations were completed yesterday, and now we have all the findings relating to the episode including all the culprits involved, the exact technique used, the entire trail of hacking steps and all evidences. The relevant authorities have been alerted with the details and legal proceedings initiated. In the meantime, we have placed several security measures to guard against similar happenings in future.

Many of you contacted us and expressed your unflinching support to us and who expressed disgust at the activities of the hackers. Thanks to all for your support and understanding.

We have recovered almost all threads/posts as of Nov 8 2011, except those posted after about 3PM IST. Otherwise everything should work as usual. If you face any problems or have any comments, pls pm/email me. Thanks again!

[sathya_1979]

Thanks RR!

[BM]

Thanks RR and NOV.

[groucho070]

Thanks RR & NOV, update us on the action taken on the culprits.

[NOV]

:bow: to all Hubbers....
We are deeply indebted and grateful to the scores of people who messaged, chatted, emailed and even called all the way from India, asking for details.
Thank you for your love and care :bow:

Some experienced withdrawal symptoms, while others felt helpless and unable to do anything.
Some, like me, took many naps. :D

[Pras]

welcome back ;)

[kid-glove]

Great work RR & co. :clap:

[joe]

Thanks RR .

[Mahen]

Thanks RR and Nov :clap:

[19thmay]

Thank you very much!

[Bala (Karthik)]

RR and NOV :thumbsup:

[ajaybaskar]

:thumbsup:

[Bala (Karthik)]

Some experienced withdrawal symptoms
:lol: :auu:

Actually I thought it was normal maintenance. K_G dhaan chat la sonnaaru

[interz]

Good to read its back. Good job mods. I also thought it was some maintenance upgrade, untill yesterday.

[omega]

Great job RR & Nov....

[Siv.S]

RR and NOV :ty: :thumbsup:

[Dinesh84]

:thumbsup: RR & Nov

[Balaji.r]

Good :thumbsup:

[San_K]

Good job. Really we missed Hub :thumbsup:

[hamid]

oh..ivvalo nadanthirukka? good job mods.. if possible update us regarding the things which has happened and who did it..

[satissh_r]

Great to see the forum back :) Thanks and well done to all involved!

[Sid_316]

Thanks RR and NOV :thumbsup:

[rsubras]

welcome back :)

only when the hub was down realized how much I missed it :)

[Plum]

Thanks RR, NOV and everyone running the HUB. UngaL sEvai engaLukku thEvai.
miscreants, unable to handle civil discussionsavaingaLA? :shock:

[Sudarshan C R]

Well done RR and Team!!! Happy to see the hub board again!

[Plum]

Times like this make my decision to skip this generation of social networking tools - and I have been telling myself for 10 years that I will join the next wave of social networking tools - look foolish. Pacebook, tuyitterlaam epdi join paNNanum solli kudungappA!

[Bala (Karthik)]

.avaingaLA? :shock:
Enakkum adhe shock dhaan :lol:

[Sid_316]

Enakkum adhe shock dhaan :lol:

Avainga nariya vidham.. :D It has happend in orkut too.

[sakaLAKALAKAlaa Vallavar]

The 2nd day the hub got inactive, then itself, i guessed if this was due to the 2 dangerous anti-internet elements who got banned(becos of highly 'decent' posts they posted towards me and Bala(Karthik) ). So it was no surprise to me. One guy had his location as UK. That strengthened my doubt.

[sakaLAKALAKAlaa Vallavar]

NOV, antha miscreants oda e-mail id irukkum illaiyaa! ahtai thaanga! naanga chummaa veLuthu katturom! mavane hub auyaa hack panreenga! Vaadaa vaadaa vaada, thairiyam irunthaa en area vukku, en theruvukku, en veettukku vaadaa! :lol:

[Plum]

RR, NOv: deeply appreciate your commitment to civilness, and courageous weeding out of graceless, senseless miscreants. Kalagam nanmaiyil mudindadhu endrE eNNugiREn - I believe laws are stringent in UK - indha hub-in asif, amir, butt-gaLai legal system dhandiththAl migavum nandrAga irukkum...

[KCSHEKAR]

Thanks Mr.RR & Mr.Nov for your great effort

[madhu]

just want to say glux glux glux

[littlemaster1982]

8-) 8-)

[kid-glove]

Enakkum adhe shock dhaan :lol:

Enakkum thaan.

As I said, this forum deserves a better class of hackers.

http://lazyoptimist.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/why-so-serious.jpeg

[Sunil_M88]

Really appreciate those who were involved in restoring our Mayyam. RR/NOV other admins - I can't thank you lot enough :clap: I had withdrawal symptoms :P

[ajithfederer]

:rotfl:
Absolutely bro. +1.


Enakkum thaan.

As I said, this forum deserves a better class of hackers.

http://lazyoptimist.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/why-so-serious.jpeg

[Sid_316]

Lol true :lol2:

[Nerd]

Some experienced withdrawal symptoms, while others felt helpless and unable to do anything.

:lol: naanga paaththa padaththai paththiyellaam vera enga post pannradhu :huh:

Sakala, yaar andha kurippitta two? Pls. PM.

[Murali Srinivas]

Thanks RR for all the efforts you took to restore.

Thanks NOV for your status updates in FB assuring that everything would be fine.

Just as Subras mentioned, realised how much we miss the hub when it was down.

Regards

Plum, ungalukku office-la pozhudhe poyirukkaadhe!

[Thirumaran]

Great Job RR and NOV :thumbsup: After lm called only i know mod's id's were hacked and after that hub.. Great to see the actions again :p

[sakaLAKALAKAlaa Vallavar]

Nov said, some showed signs of withdrawing etc... I am sure they wud have not! Seeing the posts, even tho Nerd puts in a funny tone, hub is ALSO a place for all of us to do and know useful things :thumbsup: some good effect thru hub, to everyone;s life... Hub Rocks!

[Plum]

Murali, nIngaLumA? :lol:. IngE ennaiya oru manager thuvaichu edukkaRan, nambungappA. Sila samayam, andha kaduppula dhaan ingE sikkuRa sila meengaLai nAn thuvaichu edukkaRen ;-)

[aanaa]

Thank you for bringing back the hub soon

[NOV]

Nov said, some showed signs of withdrawing etc... no, no ... you misunderstand... I said some showed withdrawal symptoms, like how a drug addict would be when denied drugs. :)


Thanks everyone once again; we are humbled by your show of affection. :bow:

[Bala (Karthik)]

Sakala
NOV meant withdrawal symptoms, not signs of withdrawing

[Nerd]

Yov sakala yenyaa? I wasn't making fun of NOV's statement/hub. That was said in jest.

Btw, andha thread pakkam ponaa ellaam banned hubbersaa irukku...

[littlemaster1982]

Great job RR :thumbsup:


:lol: naanga paaththa padaththai paththiyellaam vera enga post pannradhu :huh:


:lol:

[raagadevan]

Thank you RR, vElan and all the others instrumental in reviving the hub! :) Having experienced some of the withdrawal symptoms myself, I now appreciate the role the hub plays in the daily lives of many people even when they are not regular posters/participants!

[Shakthiprabha]

Great job restoring the hub back! thankyou mods.
Not having hub did not makie any difference to me for first 2 days.... I suppose I did miss after 10th of november.
Thankyou....

Its sad to note, heart rules few and they dont sit behind to think the consequences :(

[V_S]

Excellent job RR, NOV and all others who were involved in restoring our hub! :clap: :notworthy: Definitely I missed our hub very much!

[NOV]

Was really worried that the gems and the treasures in this thread would be lost because of the hack incident. Thanks again RR & NOV for reviving this and the other threads. Our utmost gratitude.


Exactly. Our Heartiest Thanks to RR and NOV.

RegardsPardon Rakesh and Murali, for bringing this here from NT thread, but I think Hubbers must know the level of damage intended by the hackers.

ALL Kamal and Surya threads were deleted. And so were all Announcement threads.
All mods id's, except mine, were deleted. Mine was used to do all the damage and a couple of posts were made using my id.
Ajay Bhaskar posted in time and alerted that the posts were not mine and that the Hub had been hacked.
Banned hubbers were activated and some others were banned.

Apparently, they under-estimated RR's resilience. :)

[sakaLAKALAKAlaa Vallavar]

Nerd, thappaa nenachikkaathinga! That post was completely mis-typed! naan solla vanthathu ennanna, "naanga pakkura padathai pathi enge post panrathu" appadinnu neenga sonneenga illayaa, i said that not only timepass(like what u said) most of us are doing and learning useful things too, via hub! enakku ithai solla, words sariyaa amayalai :(

[RC]

Thanks RR, NOV and Others for restoring our dearest hub! :)
pesal Thanks to Ajay for alerting NOV on time!

[raagadevan]

NOV was "altered"? :) How?

[sakaLAKALAKAlaa Vallavar]

Pardon Rakesh and Murali, for bringing this here from NT thread, but I think Hubbers must know the level of damage intended by the hackers.

ALL Kamal and Surya threads were deleted. And so were all Announcement threads.
All mods id's, except mine, were deleted. Mine was used to do all the damage and a couple of posts were made using my id.
Ajay Bhaskar posted in time and alerted that the posts were not mine and that the Hub had been hacked.
Banned hubbers were activated and some others were banned.

Apparently, they under-estimated RR's resilience. :)

:shock: ivlo pannittaangaLAa?!? NOV, if ur id is hacked means, i don;t know the level of security which prevailed. Ok, what abt current situation? How strong, hub's security is now!

Just say non technically, athu pothum! Neenga romba technicalaa athu irukku ithu irukku nnu sonnaa, again they may try to do harm...

Anegama, ippo backup eduthutteengannu nenaikkiren :)

[NOV]

Dont worry Sakala, RR had fortified well. He is the techie :)

[Siv.S]

NOV was "altered"? :) How?
:rotfl:

[RC]

NOV was "altered"? :) How?
rd: adhellaam ungaLukku puriyaadhu... :P

[HonestRaj]

I too missed hub... appuram nan enge poyi captain paththi ellam post panradhu :lol2:

btw.. got the news from Grouch bhAi..
first day thought.. some normal server down.. next day Groucho asked in FB.. "how is life without hub".. after that he told what happened..
later Siva messaged the amount of damage like kamal & surya threads deleted

how to see the banned ids?

[itzashwin]

Nice to have the forum back

Admins n mods - thappu pannuvangala pudichuttu .... Vettaiyaadu Vilayaadu dialogue ah sollunga - " *** chinna pasangala, yaar kitta" :mrgreen: :victory:

[MADDY]

i thought they had hacked RR's id - that would have been collateral damage....

RR, i completely understand how tough it is to recover things - kudos :bow:

[HonestRaj]

idha pannadhu yarunnu PM pannungalen..

[raghavendran]

visit any Vijay thrd..u will know for urself...

RR and those who were responsible for recovering Hub..:clap:

[RR]

Thanks all! As I see the posts going haywire, I'm locking this thread. If you have any further comments, pls PM.