Originally Posted by
Marts
To be fair, boards like invision and phbb are not 'hackable' as you put it.
Oh yes they are! You would be surprised at how many forums dont run the most recent versions of the board software leaving them wide open for exploits.
Originally Posted by
Marts
Asking the servers for hlp will just get you a "Sorry sir, because this issue is based within a software package on our server there is nothing we can do". Thats even if they know what a forum software is!!!
Dont you mean the server host? Asking the server
and if the host didnt know what forum software is then I wouldnt be with them for very long
Originally Posted by
Marts
change all the moderation team passwords into mixed numerics (over 26 letters/numbers long) and then start tidying up and sorting out the mess from there.
There is absolutely no need to have a password so long. You might as well wear a tinfoil hat every time you log in. Having a password not in the english dictionary and in lower, upper, number and symbols is the more secure way. Something along the lines of
>Lly#REeGBy*C/? is more than ample.
Slaney21 didnt your friend make back ups of the site at all? Any one running a website of any sorts knows to make backups at least daily in case something like this happens. You can be back up and running within hours instead of having to start from scratch again.