Hacker Hit EZBoard

SpinnerSpinner Birmingham, UK
edited June 2005 in Science & Tech
On Tuesday May 31 ezboard's systems were the victim of a very precise and malicious internet attack. This attack resulted in the loss of a significant amount of current and historical board postings and interrupted services across all systems.
At this time most board management services have been restored and our goal is to have post/reply repaired on Wednesday. We are working to restore board data from our back-up systems. This will take some time, and complete data restoration may not be possible, but it is what we are working towards. What we know now is that the attacker deleted current board and back-up data. We are taking the fastest route to restore data, but it may take up to 48 hours to get data back to approximately 9,000 boards. A more manual method requiring upwards of seven to ten days is required to restore data to the other boards that lost data. Regrettably we may not be able to restore data to all boards that lost data.
Submitted by: Dexter

Source: EZboard

Comments

  • FAH_WWFAH_WW Training in Indianapolis, IN
    edited June 2005
    I wish those guys good luck - that's a LOT of boards :|
  • Guess
    edited June 2005
    Inside job?

    Indeed, just who in the heck is Ceco Gakovic?
  • Tobias
    edited June 2005
    Inside job?

    Indeed, just who in the heck is Ceco Gakovic?

    where did you get this name?I need all the information you can give me(I'm going to find this attacker and give him what he deserves)

    Now anything you know please contac me Tobias_Duff22 at hotmail dot com
  • MojaveGator
    edited June 2005
    Ceko Gakovic is the chief technical officer for EZBoard. He is in charge of systems design and maintenance. He has an impressive list of credentials. I have not seen his name mentioned anywhere - is he being implicated in the problems with EZBoard?

    I am an administrator on one of many boards on the EZBoard system. My board, which once held 500 posts plus an archive of about 100 more, was reduced to two or three posts. We lost our entire message base plus everything in the archive. Despite EZBoard's claims that they have a restoration procedure and that things would be back to normal within 24-48 hours from the attack, so far my board has gotten back one archived post.

    We are strongly considering folding up our tents and finding another home. The only reason we haven't thus far is that my board has over 2,600 registered users, many of them sporadic visitors. There is concern that not all of them will find us.
  • Jes sayin
    edited June 2005
    Just curious about something. How did you have 2600 registered users and only a 600 post total? On EZ you must post on a board to show up as a registered user.
    Jes sayin
  • DexterDexter Vancouver, BC Canada
    edited June 2005
    MojaveGator (Guest) wrote:
    Despite EZBoard's claims that they have a restoration procedure and that things would be back to normal within 24-48 hours from the attack, so far my board has gotten back one archived post.

    It's been slow going. The one EZBoard site that I frequent has only had a couple dozen threads restored, maybe 2 pages worth per forum section (about 10 sections on that site.) It does not sound like they are going to be able to get much of the rest back. Thousands upon thousands of posts are gone. Apparently it is the same story at hundreds of other sites.

    Here is the latest info on restoration efforts, and it does not look good:
    The most difficult and painful thing for me to report is that it will be impossible to restore full data on all boards. We will send out a Global Announcement once all possible restoration procedures have been completed. During this process, you can expect to see some slowness on the boards, but we’ll return to normal speeds as soon as the restoration is complete.

    Dexter...
  • MojaveGator
    edited June 2005
    Just curious about something. How did you have 2600 registered users and only a 600 post total? On EZ you must post on a board to show up as a registered user.
    EZBoard drops posts from the listing once you reach 500 in a forum. Once the 501st post is put up, the first one drops off into oblivion. This particular message board has been running since early 2001.
  • MojaveGator
    edited June 2005
    EZBoard admitted, apparently today, that they only do routine backups on Gold Boards (those who pay extra to EZBoard for additional features). There are also boards who put in cash to pay for the boards, and a lot of their accounting figures disappeared along with the ill-fated posts.

    Early discussions indicate that my board will be moving to another site. We simply don't trust EZBoard anymore. There are other boards out there with more security and far less aggravating interfaces.
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