Hey, guys.. I'm Kevin, the guy who runs the server that this site is on. I normally don't post on customers' sites, but a bunch of you are emailing me questions, so I thought I'd sum up my replies here.

1) All your private info from the old forum is safe. Your passwords were stored in an encrypted method, so the hacker guy couldn't see what your passwords were. The log we have of what the hacker did shows that he didn't even try looking at any private info, all he did was try to delete everything.

2) The hacker got in because the site was running a very old version of vBulletin that had some known security issues. KR is running the latest version of vBulletin now with no known problems. I'll harass Brooke to keep on top of updates more often. If you have an account on any other forum that we administrate, your account is safe - we've verified that all of our forums are running the latest code. The hacker only got into the server that runs KR, there are no other sites that run on this server.

3) I personally do not believe that Courtney had anything to do with the security breach. A note was left by the hacker that indicates it was someone else who was unhappy with the some current events on the forum. On top of that, if Courtney really didn't want this forum to exist, there are much easier ways she could have had the forum taken down. (Like just asking us) However, I know nothing about the politics that go on here, so I'll trust Brooke to figure out what's going on.

Thanks for that kevin. Your efforts are appreciated.

ditto.

good to know, and thanks.


this poor kevin man. i bet he has no idea the sea of crazy KR is.

Thanks for the information.

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then she dances skirt swaying in the half-light she dances white blossom in the black sky
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I'd love to read this note.

Thanks for the update, Kevin.

Thank You!

thanks! *enters more characters*

Thank you!

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then she dances skirt swaying in the half-light she dances white blossom in the black sky
'I need new clothes', she thinks, 'new skin, a mind I can bear to live in'.

aww. i quite liked the courtney v kittyradio drama. thanks a lot for the information kevin.

ta for the info.

Thanks for letting us know

Thank you!!

Gracias!

thanks for the info!

Thank you very much for bringing this site up as fast as you did.

thankyou kevin

i remember people bringing up security issues with vbulletin before, guess it was only a matter of time with this place

i hope it's not too hard to restore things.

so is there any decent reason why people are thinking it's courtney?

i think aaron went through some reasons in another thread (the one with the poll about whether or not you think corky did it).
personally i wouldn't really be suprised either way.

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Thank you Kevin for the info.

It might have been the L.A.F. crowd, swearing revenge!