Site Password Reset

[-Blue-]

Everyone keeps asking why someone would hack a site such as this (specifically for Animal Crossing) and it's pretty clear why they do it. It's such a random and not well known site among the thousands that they could hit. They wanted to test themselves before they hit bigger fish.

That or maybe they were trying to get information (because this is technically a kids game) This sounds way more unlikely though. This isn't that uncommon, a Avatar the last airbender forum I was part of was hit by some Saudia Arabia hacker group. The site redirected to some screenshot where they gloated and were 'oh so edgy' Don't freak out so much about this guys.

Good job on the forum staff though!

 

[Paperboy012305]

Everyone keeps asking why someone would hack a site such as this (specifically for Animal Crossing) and it's pretty clear why they do it. It's such a random and not well known site among the thousands that they could hit. They wanted to test themselves before they hit bigger fish.

That or maybe they were trying to get information (because this is technically a kids game) This sounds way more unlikely though. This isn't that uncommon, a Avatar the last airbender forum I was part of was hit by some Saudia Arabia hacker group. The site redirected to some screenshot where they gloated and were 'oh so edgy' Don't freak out so much about this guys.

Good job on the forum staff though!

Basically any site can be hacked at any time. No where is safe.

 

[-Blue-]

Pretty much, but most upstart hackers go for smaller game to test the waters. At least from what I have experienced. They're all a nuisance though and should punch themselves in the groin for each attempt they make.

 

[Chicha]

Wow, that's pretty crazy. I was wondering why I had to put up a new password all of a sudden. Either way, I changed it for both here and the e-mail connected to be safe. Stay safe, everyone!

Thanks to the staff for working so hard on this! This is so strange.

 

[Paperboy012305]

I got logged out while I was idle, and I thought I was banned.

Is this an addition to this site password reset?

 

[AnimalCrossingPerson]

Partial quotes incoming!

Damn now I have to change the password I've used since I was 5

Not recommended, but you could just use the same password.

I?m a little worried. Is there anything bad he can do if he has our email addresses?

Send spam, phishing emails and try breaking into any accounts on other websites where you've used the same registration email address. It's possible the list will be sold and/or leaked publicly. Currently the latter has not happened.

The hacker was also aware of the encryption used to encrypt (Stating something like md5) so he could still decrypt your password, so do change it.

Didn't realise up until now that VBulletin still uses MD5. That's just not secure enough these days. At least they're salted though so take a bit of power to crack. Staff: Changing vBulletin 4 its password hashing to use BCrypt

Umm, it felt like the server IP Address couldn't be found for a second, explain this.

Not sure what you mean. The server IP address is 199.245.54.174 but I don't think that's what you're after.

Everyone keeps asking why someone would hack a site such as this (specifically for Animal Crossing) and it's pretty clear why they do it. It's such a random and not well known site among the thousands that they could hit. They wanted to test themselves before they hit bigger fish.

If there's an exploit that affects multiple sites, you may as well hunt down as many sites as possible where said exploit can be used. TBT has an Alexa rank of approximately 150,000, so while it's far from being the number one site in the world, it isn't unknown either.

Basically any site can be hacked at any time. No where is safe.

Ehh, kinda. Some have more backdoors than others. I'm guessing they managed some MySQL injection magic in this instance.

 

[Soigne]

hmm, maybe this was a good thing after all, forcing to change my 907 day old password.

 

[Keldi]

If I'm not in this specific tab in Chrome for long enough, I get logged out. If I go to the YouTube app on my phone for 20 minutes then come back, it's really laggy and once it loads, I'm logged out.
Should I be concerned?

 

[Jeremy]

If it's logging you out, it's probably just because you didn't have "remember me" checked when you logged in after changing it.

 

[Keldi]

If it's logging you out, it's probably just because you didn't have "remember me" checked when you logged in after changing it.

Just logged out then back in. It was checked? I rechecked it. I'll update.

 

[Paperboy012305]

If it's logging you out, it's probably just because you didn't have "remember me" checked when you logged in after changing it.

I had the "remember me" checked, I didn't see it, but I still got logged out when it happened.

 

[EpicGamer12]

I had the "remember me" checked, I didn't see it, but I still got logged out when it happened.

Sometimes your browsers autofill will show it as checked when it really isn't. Unchecking and rechecking should do the trick.

 

[duckykate]

maybe you could help by, i don't know, securing the site??

 

[Keldi]

My log-in situation is all good! ^_^

 

[Bcat]

I had the login ‘remember me’ glitch other people seemed to have but it’s good for me now too, no need to worry I guess?

 

[Cress]

hmm, maybe this was a good thing after all, forcing to change my 907 day old password.

1,637 days old password over here lol

 

[oath2order]

maybe you could help by, i don't know, securing the site??

A+ brilliant idea they definitely did not think of that until right now.

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On another note, for your emails, set up two-factor authentication.

 

[Keldi]

The site is a little on the slow side for me. Is this only on mobile? Anybody else experiencing this?

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1,637 days old password over here lol

But it said after 300 something days, it expires...What? How?

 

[KnoxUK]

Has this ever happened before?

 

[AnimalCrossingPerson]

Has this ever happened before?

To my knowledge this is TBT's first database leak. I hope the vulnerability has been patched or else we'll soon have another.