Suggestion for all staff

[Teg]

In the last few days, several forums have been hacked across various hosts and platforms. Resulting in the following:




Just a friendly suggestion that you guys have all the staff here change their passwords (if they haven't already) and possibly post an announcement globally to get admins and staff of their forums to do the same. Just as a precaution. I know you guys are pretty secure, but so are other hosts and platforms. Just a heads up.

[Michael]

To be clear: We haven't had any instances of this occurring on our service to my knowledge (and I feel like I would know).

Maintaining a secure password that is only known by you is always important. When people's forums get "hacked" (they mean cracked) it is always an instance of someone knowing or guessing a password for a forum. Maintaining a secure password is of the utmost importance.

ProBoards employees will never ask for your password.

Never give your password for your forum to anyone, and never admin or give powers to users you do not know.

[Teg]

I know that, it's just a heads up they've hit mybb phpbb and ip.board forums this week

[Scott]

Teg
On posts such as this, please be more exact in your wording. It's suggested by your first post that PB forums have been "hacked" as you put it, when in fact a couple posts later you clarified they were non-PB forums. While we sincerely appreciate the heads-up, a more carefully and accurate worded post that doesn't elicit panic is even more appreciated.

[Teg]

Some PB forums have been hacked, at least people on Skype have told me that. Please don't take me to be stupid or a trouble maker. I stated in my original post over several platforms. I'm about tired of being singled out and contradicted with my posts here as of the last few months. If it something happens again I'll just let other people report it. No response is necessary.

[Michael]

Nov 25, 2015 12:02:12 GMT -8 Teg said:

Some PB forums have been hacked, at least people on Skype have told me that. Please don't take me to be stupid or a trouble maker. I stated in my original post over several platforms. I'm about tired of being singled out and contradicted with my posts here as of the last few months. If it something happens again I'll just let other people report it. No response is necessary.

No PB forums have been "hacked". Can you link me to a PB forum that has been affected by this? We'll easily be able to look into the logs to confirm.

I appreciate your sentiment but as Scott mentioned and as I was attempting to point out with my post that it's best not to incite fear in the community necessarily. The implication that people's forums can be hacked is not only misleading, its insulting. In all of my years here at PB I have only seen instances of cracking (as peoples passwords are guessed, or given out).

I'm sorry but your attitude around this whole thread is not what I've come to expect from our fantastic community. 

[Teg]

Seriously, my attitude? I'll link to a forum when I'm home as its the holidays and I'm away from my computer. I wasn't insulting anyone if anything I've been insulted that it's been implied that I was trying to cause panic or being misleading. I've done nothing but try to help the PB community for almost ten years. It's insulting that one would make such claims against me especially new admins that don't know me.

At any rate, no need for arguing have a wonderful Thanksgiving!