A question

[Shaz]

While I have a feeling this is a fruitless endeavor, I cannot help but post this in hopes that someone will have an answer to this that will not involve "start over, that's all you can do."

I was on an invision powered message board, and one of the members requested she be removed, due to feeling the board wasn't somewhere she wanted to be anymore, and following that, began to cause havoc. The first disturbance she caused was ignorable, something we could handle internally, but the damage she caused today is...unable to be handled on our hands.

Around 9 pm Central Time on Friday, January 22nd, the board in question was either Pished/Hacked. The main administrative account was used by someone other than the main administrator, who was on a secondary account, to ban the moderators and administrators, sans the main admin account, and then the board was put offline. This issue, I'm sure, could have been handled by support, but as I and the administrators, and several other members tried frantically to find a solution, and discussed the problem, it only got worse. Refreshing a tab with the page in question in it, I found myself staring at a 404 error. She had deleted the entire board. The hard work of the members and administrators was gone. I don't know if anyone knows what needs to be done, or if there is a way to restore the site, but if there is, I would love to be informed.

Thank you.

[All Cars Online]

Do you have a backup of the site and database before your site was hacked/deleted?

[Wolfie]

While I have a feeling this is a fruitless endeavor, I cannot help but post this in hopes that someone will have an answer to this that will not involve "start over, that's all you can do."

I was on an invision powered message board, and one of the members requested she be removed, due to feeling the board wasn't somewhere she wanted to be anymore, and following that, began to cause havoc. The first disturbance she caused was ignorable, something we could handle internally, but the damage she caused today is...unable to be handled on our hands.

Around 9 pm Central Time on Friday, January 22nd, the board in question was either Pished/Hacked. The main administrative account was used by someone other than the main administrator, who was on a secondary account, to ban the moderators and administrators, sans the main admin account, and then the board was put offline. This issue, I'm sure, could have been handled by support, but as I and the administrators, and several other members tried frantically to find a solution, and discussed the problem, it only got worse. Refreshing a tab with the page in question in it, I found myself staring at a 404 error. She had deleted the entire board. The hard work of the members and administrators was gone. I don't know if anyone knows what needs to be done, or if there is a way to restore the site, but if there is, I would love to be informed.

Thank you.

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Shaz,

I would recommend submitting a support ticket. While there is of course a limit to what can be done in situations like this, a technician will be happy to discuss the situation with you and advise you on your options.

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