EastCoastNiner Posted July 14, 2011 Report Share Posted July 14, 2011 I was just thinking about it, and didn't see a thread about it, but a few weeks ago was two years since OTR was hacked and was started up again. Damn, time flies by. . I remember everybody being in that chat-room and trying to figure out who the person that hacked the site was. That was a very interesting night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fish7718 Posted July 14, 2011 Report Share Posted July 14, 2011 I was just thinking about it, and didn't see a thread about it, but a few weeks ago was two years since OTR was hacked and was started up again. Damn, time flies by. . I remember everybody being in that chat-room and trying to figure out who the person that hacked the site was. That was a very interesting night.We didn't know it was hacked, we thought B took it down, everyone was so pissed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastCoastNiner Posted July 14, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 14, 2011 (edited) We didn't know it was hacked, we thought B took it down, everyone was so pissed I think that was because he shut it down soon before that as well, right? I'm pretty sure that's what happened, and then it got hacked soon after. I can't believe that was two years ago. That's when we still had Matt(Deisel), Paul (N4S), Mason (HisGreatness), Guyla (BeanBurrito), and some other members. We didn't even have the real DBF yet. Speaking of the real DBF, I hope it's been a month so I can change my name. I feel dirty with this name. Edited July 14, 2011 by DaBearsfan101 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owner Real Deal Posted July 14, 2011 Owner Report Share Posted July 14, 2011 Yeah, I never really actually talked about that day (or the couple of days after). Basically, the hack happened through an SQL injection (says my old host). A week before that (or around that time), my hard drive fried...so I didn't have any of my backups, didn't have banner PSD's, nothing. I also lost all of those player pages and images I worked on. So, I asked the host for a backup, and they told me they didn't have any...which blew my mind, and if there was any way I could tell you guys, accurately, how pissed off I was...you'd be shocked. We (as a site) lost about 4 1/2 years of posts, and all of the work I had done on the team and player pages...it was gone. I ended up slamming my fist on my desk really hard, and it busted off a chunk of it, so I had to go buy a new desk. Someone said a guy was bragging about it on another site, but I never found out who. I think someone was paid to do it. I had updated the site frequently, and it would take a very knowledgeable person to hack into these forums OR Wordpress (both were being used at that time as well). I don't remember shutting the board down in that year. I did that in June or July 2008 (because of how bad it was getting for Lakers fans, after losing to Boston, and the personal attacks were insane). The board was hacked in June or July 2009, a year later. A lot of people (people I won't bother naming) decided not to come back to OTR after the posts were lost. I have no idea why, honestly. A few were really good members, had a good relationship with everyone, one was on staff if I recall correctly, but they walked. I was irate about losing 600k posts, but I didn't feel like that was a good reason to leave, but I'll leave it at that. Speaking of the real DBF, I hope it's been a month so I can change my name. I feel dirty with this name.I might as well just change them back for both of you. It's been long enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fish7718 Posted July 14, 2011 Report Share Posted July 14, 2011 280,000 post hack posts, I'd say we recovered just fine... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Multi-Billionaire Posted July 14, 2011 Report Share Posted July 14, 2011 Me, Jammin, Universe, and Asian (Jer) are the most seniorest members all of you have to bow down to us hahahahah Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sun Tzu Posted July 14, 2011 Report Share Posted July 14, 2011 It's felt a lot less than two years since it all went down to be honest. Time does certainly fly... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Feelgood Posted July 14, 2011 Report Share Posted July 14, 2011 Well, I wasn't around during the hack but I'm around now. That had to of been really intense to lose everything like that. I know I'd be pissed off, lol. But I think we're doing fine now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owner Real Deal Posted July 14, 2011 Owner Report Share Posted July 14, 2011 I gotta disagree about us doing fine. I realize we're a basketball message board, and that there's a lockout, but even then, we can't live off of just 100 posts a day. Less and less people are using message boards, and we're a veteran site with veteran posters. We'll take the hit from it before many others because a lot of our members are working full-time, or going to college full-time, paying bills, etc. I brought RealGM up the other day, and I went over there to look at their activity...and it's pretty low in some team forums, which is surprising because, just two years ago, it wasn't like that. RGM was basically 30 different team message board sites, and that's just talking about the NBA, plus an OTR (in regards to their General NBA section). I know everyone has suggestions, but the numbers haven't been looking good for a long time now. We have to find a way to bring in new blood before we try anything else. I'll think of something, but it's really not the right time to try anything big. I'm crossing my fingers that these players and owners man up and get shit done. Right now, we're in survival mode. The hack was obviously the worst thing that has ever happened to us, but this is right behind it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenneral Posted July 14, 2011 Report Share Posted July 14, 2011 RD, for $15 you can be the sole sponsor of DailyPoll.me for a month. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Force Posted July 14, 2011 Report Share Posted July 14, 2011 Whats the site that you can see how OTR was like on a specific date pre hack?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenneral Posted July 14, 2011 Report Share Posted July 14, 2011 Whats the site that you can see how OTR was like on a specific date pre hack??http://wayback.archive.org/web/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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