Some of you may or may not know this but I am a moderator over at .:Serious-Sounds.net:.
About two days ago our servers were attacked and an unknown hacker modified the SQL code of our forums and in essence making them useless. Thankfully the support staff for our forum software was able to quickly bring us back up to speed and repair the problem.One of our administrators noticed what appears to be a trend of attacks across the music production community target towards music production forums.Approximately a month ago the popular forum .:Samplecity.net:. was successfully hacked and down for about ten days. That forum has been attacked again about five days ago and remains down at the time of this writing.Upon further investigation by various people I know we have determined that several other forums have now been hacked as well or are featuring problems.The ambient forum .:Ambient Collective:. was also attacked about a month ago and went down for a few days.Last week .:Loopcreators:. mysteriously went down and appears to remain down at this pointThe list of other forums attacked the we have been able to uncover thus far is as follows..:Loopy.tk:.
.:Fltutorials.com:.
.:FLstudio-tutorials.com:.I ask anyone who reads this to please pass the word on throughout the community to create awareness. If you are a moderator or an administrator of a music community please make sure your site is updated and backed up.
(Update)- Upon further investigation and posting around some other boards it seems that many other forums are continuing to experience a trend in attacks..:midwestmassive:. was attacked.
.:Serious-Sounds.net:. was attacked a second time and was taken down for about 12 hours.
.:VI-Control:. Was attacked and down.
.:Papergoose:. Was attacked
We have also notice that many of these sites appear to have a user named Kampo, or some variation of that name. There is no proof that he/she is associated in any way, with the attacks, but the coincidence begs to question.
About two days ago our servers were attacked and an unknown hacker modified the SQL code of our forums and in essence making them useless. Thankfully the support staff for our forum software was able to quickly bring us back up to speed and repair the problem.One of our administrators noticed what appears to be a trend of attacks across the music production community target towards music production forums.Approximately a month ago the popular forum .:Samplecity.net:. was successfully hacked and down for about ten days. That forum has been attacked again about five days ago and remains down at the time of this writing.Upon further investigation by various people I know we have determined that several other forums have now been hacked as well or are featuring problems.The ambient forum .:Ambient Collective:. was also attacked about a month ago and went down for a few days.Last week .:Loopcreators:. mysteriously went down and appears to remain down at this pointThe list of other forums attacked the we have been able to uncover thus far is as follows..:Loopy.tk:.
.:Fltutorials.com:.
.:FLstudio-tutorials.com:.I ask anyone who reads this to please pass the word on throughout the community to create awareness. If you are a moderator or an administrator of a music community please make sure your site is updated and backed up.
(Update)- Upon further investigation and posting around some other boards it seems that many other forums are continuing to experience a trend in attacks..:midwestmassive:. was attacked.
.:Serious-Sounds.net:. was attacked a second time and was taken down for about 12 hours.
.:VI-Control:. Was attacked and down.
.:Papergoose:. Was attacked
We have also notice that many of these sites appear to have a user named Kampo, or some variation of that name. There is no proof that he/she is associated in any way, with the attacks, but the coincidence begs to question.