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Did some forum threads get lost?
National Rail:
I haven't been on here for a long, long time. I can see the layout has changed and I heard that something happened which was the reason for the change but can't remember off the top of my head.
Now is it just me or did some historic threads go missing during whatever happened?
Conan:
forum server hard drive died, we lost about 4 months of posts at the time of death, but anything truly old/classic is still around. badspot also decided to upgrade the smf software after people were exploiting an old smf forum password reset vulnerability.
National Rail:
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I see, I'm curious and have a few questions then if you don't mind.
Was it just a straight 4 months from a particular date or 4 months worth of posts from various years? If the former would you happen to know it?
And as for the exploit, was it that people were managing to gain access to other's accounts?
Pecon:
--- Quote from: National Rail on April 03, 2020, 05:46:44 PM ---Was it just a straight 4 months from a particular date or 4 months worth of posts from various years? If the former would you happen to know it?
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A specific time period that was actually closer to 3 months. This was because that was when the last full backup of the forum database had occurred. Badspot apparently also managed to salvage some of the missing data after the fact and threw it back into the database, but it's not clear how much was truly recovered from that.
--- Quote from: National Rail on April 03, 2020, 05:46:44 PM ---And as for the exploit, was it that people were managing to gain access to other's accounts?
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Yes. There are a number of theories as to how the exploit worked, but I don't think anyone not involved in it ever figured out what the exploit truly was.
exit:
wasnt it just a short code that would be easier to guess than what we have now