HACKED

[Shroomster]

WTF? we've been hacked.

[YarisBueller]

I dont know, I checked out that site and I cant see any reason for them to do this to us. im guessing just some punk asshole did this. even if they did whats the use, i'm so distraught right now that it doesn't really matter anymore. All we can do is rebuild.

[Shroomster]

nice to see ya active again 'boss' not so much under the circumstances but nice none the less, and you're right we'll just have to rebuild I'm pretty sure most everything was photbucket'd as far as pictures goes....

[PETERPOOP]

WOW. SO MUCH information lost........

I had to re-register....

[ztrack157]

Had to be someone in the Japanese market. I'm suspecting Fit.

[2006fronty]

:brokenheart:this sucks, I'm kind of skeptical that that BMW site actually did this. Some fucker is probably just trying to start problems between our forums.

[PHXDEMON2]

This is bullshit my fucking account is gone :mad:

[ztrack157]

We need a better back up incase this stuff happens again.

[PetersRedYaris]

That was really wierd seeing the site hacked. At least you recovered it quickly. Nice job...

On a positive note, all the political posts about the upcomign election are gone. Woo Hoo!

[Shroomster]

everyone just needs to stay calm unfortunately this might not have ever been planned but at least the admin was nice enough to have a backup....some sites just crash and go completely "White screen of death" thankfully YB had a backup....


BTW welcome back everyone.....

[YarisBueller]

yea, we have daily backups now.... sorry everyone, it should have been daily backups before but i got us a backup service that will do it for us now. setting up as we speak.

[PETERPOOP]

Yah seriously. Most updated backup info was over a year ago? Come on YW...

[2006fronty]

All we can do is rebuild.

Don't worry, YW is a great community that will bounce back from this

[Forrest]

Just rejoined as well. Glad you were able to get the site going.
I am sure everyone will return and resign in.

[PETERPOOP]

This just had to happen right after a HAWAII regional forum was created! GREAT! now it's gone!

lol j/k....sorta.

[SailDesign]

Yah seriously. Most updated backup info was over a year ago? Come on YW...

On the bright side (and there is ALWAYS a bright side) now we get to add to the old threads we forgot to rant on when they were active. :biggrin:

[Zefoxe]

the random picture thread is gone. I am le sad :( but happy we're back in action :P

[SailDesign]

Dang! I'd forgotten my old avatar - Japanese for "Short Attention Span", so I'm told.

[PHXDEMON2]

Dammit I thought it was just not taking the password BRB re registering under PHXDEMON.

[contraband831]

aww yeah! it looks like cali yaris is having a group buy on CF hoods, J/K

THIS REALLY BLOWS!

[PETERPOOP]

ahahahha. it feels as if an internet hurricane has wiped everything away and we are the survivors trying to rebuild a better life.

[carnage08]

Its alright for me though since I just joined last week. However, how are we going to deal with the dealers in the forums? Because I just paid my items recently to one of the sponsors in here for my purchases...

[Black Yaris]

damn, lost about 1/2 my post count

[TinyGiant]

just re-registerd.. Retarded kids :(


its like i never existed...lol i want my post count back!

[Shroomster]

Its alright for me though since I just joined last week. However, how are we going to deal with the dealers in the forums? Because I just paid my items recently to one of the sponsors in here for my purchases...

the purchases are not made on the forum. you should have no problems.

[PETERPOOP]

DUDE! now we have to repost all our hood designs for garm's hood contest!!!!!!!

[LtNoogie]

At least this let me use the username I should have picked when I first joined.

[TinyGiant]

Its alright for me though since I just joined last week. However, how are we going to deal with the dealers in the forums? Because I just paid my items recently to one of the sponsors in here for my purchases...

they'll be back.. those who sponsor the forums are all great guys.. you should be fine .. give a couple days for everyone to get back on board

[pixiedixie862]

this sucks... i had to register like many of you guys here... damn it!

[LtNoogie]

Is there an update to the forum software so that they can't do it again tonight?

[TinyGiant]

sniffle... all that yaris love.. all the info... the humanity!!

[Shroomster]

Is there an update to the forum software so that they can't do it again tonight?

unless it's the work of caveatipse ( I doubt it) this will hopefully be a one time thing

[darthbauer]

More like an A-bomb going off.


Im kinda over this whole thing now. Fucking hackers.

[PreciousPups4U]

Weird. Really weird.

Is everyone OK?

[LtNoogie]

this sucks... i had to register like many of you guys here... damn it!

Pixie, you beat me to it. I was going to grab your username and mess with JR for a day or so.:biggrin:

[carnage08]

they'll be back.. those who sponsor the forums are all great guys.. you should be fine .. give a couple days for everyone to get back on board

No worries...I had some Yarisworld.com's PM notification on my inbox and paid through Paypal, so should be alright I recken...:rolleyes:

[Shroomster]

nm I'm still not on the top 10 list for post counts...:9

[Black Yaris]

caveatipse is to blame.... I know it

[TinyGiant]

are you guys on a dedicated server? or are you guys on a shared one.. usually the shared servers have hacker protections .. the dedicated ones leave it up to you.. i have a few forums that have never been touched on godaddy .. might want to get some sort of protection on there if there isnt any already... although there will always be some reject out there with ill intent... daily or weekly backups are the safest bet

[PHXDEMON]

K have my old username back. Mods please delete PHXDEMON2.

[33OH]

Well, nothing we can do I guess but rebuild..

[Forrest]

These hackers must have nothing better to do than hack into a site where people share info on a particular type of car. If they did it this time, think they will try again? I certainly hope not !

[Shroomster]

are you guys on a dedicated server? or are you guys on a shared one.. usually the shared servers have hacker protections .. the dedicated ones leave it up to you.. i have a few forums that have never been touched on godaddy .. might want to get some sort of protection on there if there isnt any already... although there will always be some reject out there with ill intent... daily or weekly backups are the safest bet
Yarisworld is now going to have daily refreshes...as per YarisBueller.

[TinyGiant]

i dont have my link for my sig here at work... lol probably shouldnt be on anyways lol.. i guess i'llb e rebuilding the profile when i get home :)

maybe i'll do a bunch of new pics too :)

wheres fema? i think we all need some provisions after this one

[TinyGiant]

vouchers for free turbos and tints

[floydisrock]

The site is much faster now!

[Black Yaris]

I though TK had a whole DIY site..... I am sure he backed up at least some of the info

[Shroomster]

lmao....in a sense this was kind of a "flush" if you think about it....

[PETERPOOP]

ohhh nooooooo all the recent DIYs are gooonnnneeeeee. AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

all the hard work and time they put into thoseeeeee!!!!

[Goose]

I'm sorry to hear that this happened. Glad to see that the forum is back up! :smile:

[floydisrock]

I'm thinkin it's that dude last week who threatened you guys.

[Shroomster]

HOPEFULLY EVERYONE HAD BACKUPS OF THE PICTURES on photobucket or the like so this "clean-up" will likely take a little bit of time...

[TinyGiant]

crappiest of all crap.. i didnt save any of my hood competition photoshops..:(

*Garm... just remember i was winning*

hopefully the files will still be in my trash bin..*fingers crossed*

[Bob_VT]

Completely blown away....

Had to re-register......

Garage is empty.......

Wow this sucks.

[Shroomster]

Welcome back to everyone!

[carnage08]

Authors of the DIY's.... please repost them!

[PHXDEMON]

Testing my AV.

[PHXDEMON]

Yay, my av is back now I get to take all new pics and restore my garage.

[voodoo22]

Oy, so weak. We have no right to complain about the back up not being up to date, come on people. This even should let you know how much you take for granted all the hard work the admins here do.

[Darth Gilbert]

YB, thanks for getting things up and running so quickly. Nothing can stop YarisWorld!!

[TinyGiant]

luckily all my DIY stuff was in photo bucket :)

[Shroomster]

luckily all my DIY stuff was in photo bucket :)

:thumbup::thumbup::thumbup::thumbup::thumbsup:

[Morgan]

... it feels as if an internet hurricane has wiped everything away and we are the survivors trying to rebuild a better life.

George Bush hates yarisworld!!!

I hope everyone saved the data they loved elsewhere, gl to the site managers!

[TinyGiant]

Oy, so weak. We have no right to complain about the back up not being up to date, come on people. This even should let you know how much you take for granted all the hard work the admins here do.

We aren't complaining ... we are grieving .. its a process :cry:

[bdc87]

Good to hear we NOW have daily backups. Do we have better security? Are we going to be able to recover the rest or do we have to start this all over again. And for the HACKER I hope you walk out your front door, go check the mail, and get hit by a Yaris.

[TinyGiant]

And for the HACKER I hope you walk out your front door, go check the mail, and get hit by a Yaris.

:laughabove:

[carnage08]

YB, thanks for getting things up and running so quickly. Nothing can stop YarisWorld!!

I LoL'ed at your avatar.:laughabove:

[33OH]

And for the HACKER I hope you walk out your front door, go check the mail, and get hit by a Yaris.

Hahaha.. nice :eek:

[eco]

Im at a loss of words,just Fin sucks.

[RagnaCaT]

And for the HACKER I hope you walk out your front door, go check the mail, and get hit by a Yaris.

+1 Since we have 2 models HB and SD he should get hit twice this really sucks Glad to see that everyone is coming aboard again!

[marcus]

lost my new messages....wow

[TinyGiant]

if there is anything you admins need from me lmk.. I dont work mon-thurs and could devote some time this week to help. i'll definitely get my threads back up and running when i get home

[darthbauer]

What really sucks is the DIY's that are lost. So many...

[RagnaCaT]

Hey at least my avatar reminds me how my cars was! Someone should die for this! but seeing all the old stuff is kind of cool!

[YoyotaTaris]

I find it a bit odd that the forum went a whole year without a backup? Most forums I have helped to moderate made backups daily to weekly depending on size.

I would just like to suggest to the admin that he should contact his host. The actual database of the forum (which is what has been lost) is stored separately on the server which only the owner of the server has access to. That owner might have made his own backups.

I am assuming this site doesnt run on a dedicated server since its relatively small.

I am really sorry to hear about the loss btw. This site helped me a lot with my Yaris last year. I will do what I can to contribute.

Regards.

[Pattycake]

wow. this totally sucks.

[custom Lftback]

This is disappointing how a lot of information is completely gone, but like you guys said, we will bounce back 2-fold. I'm sure YarisWorld will be better than ever now! Thank you YarisBueller for all your hard work on getting our website back up and running

[Shroomster]

hmm I might be mistaken but I think the fuel economy forum is gone..... BailOut where are youuuuuu?

[Kaotic Lazagna]

Wow, I got a message from my friend saying our (local) forum was hacked as well. Wth is wrong with these people!?

[Lillydot]

AW!!!!! i haven't posted in a while, but i always came back regularly to look at the new info! aw well...
i hate hackers! my personal email account was hacked/phished earlier this week!

[tuckevalastin]

wow I'm a virgin here again... but to get rid of this noob feeling I'm posting this post.

Also there has been alot of mentioning that the site was really slowing down lately, this could be a pretty big nail in the coffin... hope not, but I dunno

[Shroomster]

wow I'm a virgin here again... but to get rid of this noob feeling I'm posting this post.

Also there has been alot of mentioning that the site was really slowing down lately, this could be a pretty big nail in the coffin... hope not, but I dunno

from the look I think it was more like a defib shock....

[Remedy]

If you've ban someone in the last 45-90 days, it would be wise to start looking at that former member.

[Forrest]

I never noticed the site slowing down so maybe it was the people's computers that were the problem.

[enviri]

yeah i logged in and all it read was "HACKED BY BIMMERFEST.COM HAHA YOU F*ERS!" im like, woah. how the hell did we piss them off? or someone is making them the scapegoat!

[Crandall]

Shit happens. Oh well

[darthbauer]

Does this mean that you know who(s) are going to be able to get back on here?

[RagnaCaT]

We should get ready fo another HIT! They will come back you know!

[Shroomster]

hopefully caveatipse won't be back I hadn't seen him trolling for a few weeks...

[Thej3sta2]

yo dis is some bullshit, is their no ip or any bread crums they left to track those assholes down.

[33OH]

Just think of all the DIY's and knowledge that was lost.. :(

[darthbauer]

Well someone needs to go back and ban (caveatipse) again before he figures out what happened if he wasn't behind it.

[acrbill]

The wayback machine latest archive is February 08 and it shows a ton more posts than there is now.

Not sure what I can do to help, but if you can figure something out let me know.

[tristan]

man that sucks! i only had like 8-9 posts, so i don't have much to make up lol

[Doc Zaius]

The site hadn't been backed up in a year?!?!?! WTH is that!??! :mad:

Oh well... time to rebuild and move forward!

[GeneW]

My account got slagged. Oh well, start over again.

Gene

[Shroomster]

man that sucks! i only had like 8-9 posts, so i don't have much to make up lol

hey fellow orlando-....nite? ian??? orlando person.....

[TEHxFALLEN V1.2]

Damn it, my freaking account info is gone.. Oh well. I'm back!

[bdc87]

Damn it, my freaking account info is gone.. Oh well. I'm back!
What happened to the cute chick in your Avatar?

[Ferret_san]

damn, lost about 1/2 my post count

Nooooo... not my stars ...... 2600 -> 214
I' such a noob :wink:

Oh god, the post whoring is gonna have to start all over again !

[TEHxFALLEN V1.2]

What happened to the cute chick in your Avatar?

I'm too sad to put her back on LOL

[IanCFitz]

wtf :eek:

[Ferret_san]

OH FUCK...

THE BAMBO THREAD .....


Goooooone
:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:
:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

[dvlnblkdrs]

totally! i know... its supposed to go to Joe next, then me, but after that.. idk! :cry:

[TEHxFALLEN V1.2]

OMFG BAMBO!! NOO!!

[darthbauer]

That sucks about Bambo, hopefully someone has that list and that everyone kept the pics they took.


Are we going to keep calling shit version 2.0 cause it is already getting pretty old. Were no AOL here.

[toyochris]

this sucks we should kill the guy who did it. send him to his maker:evil::evil::cry::cry:.

o well back to start over again.

[Shroomster]

That sucks about Bambo, hopefully someone has that list and that everyone kept the pics they took.


Are we going to keep calling shit version 2.0 cause it is already getting pretty old. Were no AOL here.

great I read this thing about no mroe 2.0 now what am I supposed to do? make a 'fish collage' out of all my second gen posts?

[Black Yaris]

oh yeah.... and I think the clock on the forum is slightly off :)

[TEHxFALLEN V1.2]

Yes, I am version 1.2. Now with even more whoring capabilities LOL!

[TEHxFALLEN V1.2]

Touch me baby.

[tuckevalastin]

830 users reading about nothing... interesting

[eco]

Damn,thats sucks about Bambo,I liked to see his travels so much,a part of real history has been destroyed.

[TEHxFALLEN V1.2]

I know who did this.. the Devil.

[Sodium Duck]

I'm too depressed to post anything else besides this.

[TEHxFALLEN V1.2]

Let's all down a 40!

[bdc87]

830 users reading about nothing... interesting

+1:bellyroll:

[Black Yaris]

Let's all down a 40!

one for my homies

[jdmekcivic]

I've made my first post!:thumbsup:







:mad:

[Sodium Duck]

I've made my first post!:thumbsup:

I feel like such a dork with it...... I'm gonna keep it that way!

[eco]

a search on google "Yarisworld bamboo" brings some back if you look at the cached version,but I dont see any of the pics,I hope you guys and gals post them back up.

[TEHxFALLEN V1.2]

one for my homies

This one is for the homies. :drinking:

[jdmekcivic]

I feel like such a dork with it...... I'm gonna keep it that way!

I kinda like being the newbie. I am going to try and stay under 10 posts.

[devinlamothe]

Well my account is still OK. But it really sucks the site was hacked - I came here for all my Yaris info and news. I think everything will be fine I'm sure everyone will rebuild the site!! :)

[YoyotaTaris]

We lost 62% of the boards posts and 57% of the boards accounts.

i.e we lost:

More than 231 000 posts.
and More than 7300 accounts.

[PETERPOOP]

oh my

[Black Yaris]

about 4000 of those 231000 posts were mine

[GeneW]

this sucks we should kill the guy who did it. send him to his maker:evil::evil::cry::cry:.

o well back to start over again.

I'd like to make 'em squeal like a piggy.

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g239/dbpen/deliverance.gif

Gene

[Sodium Duck]

I kinda like being the newbie. I am going to try and stay under 10 posts.

rofl

[squall_x]

I've made my first post!:thumbsup:


I've made my first post.... again...yay!!!! :headbang:

[eco]

We know you da man joe,you and etimago were past 7,000,some one else to I think.

[Black Yaris]

Kaotic was way up there

[eco]

Ya.

[Shroomster]

ChinoCharles and Chris07lb tooo

[eco]

Yep,thats right.

[TEHxFALLEN V1.2]

hi.

[bB2NER]

Is there anyway to trace it back and find out what tool did this?

[kuyachris84]

uhhh... had to re-register also, that's some Bullshit right there!

[bxrich]

:brokenheart:this sucks.:cry:

[Black Yaris]

Is there anyway to trace it back and find out what tool did this?

jnj..... that is funny.... the wife and I were nicknamed JnJ, Joe and Julie

[saspy]

Damn, first post for me now. Anyone got a clue who was responsible ? no log?

[Black Yaris]

wonder if I can get my username changed?

[Rain]

I didn't need to go through the re-registration but this still suxx
Poor YarisWorld! What did you ever do to deserve such treatment :iono:

[kuyachris84]

why'd they have to delete the official black yaris picture thread? damn them to hell! =(

[TEHxFALLEN V1.2]

jnj..... that is funny.... the wife and I were nicknamed JnJ, Joe and Julie

My name is JR. It means Joy & Rey.

I noticed that saspy lives in Austrailia.
"Would you like an Austrailian kiss?"
"...wtf is that?"
"It's like a French kiss.. but down under"

[gid]

can't believe this , all the new stuff is gone :frown: . Plus all the great / good input is abscent :thumbdown: . Hope this doesn't trace back to our own systems somehow :iono: . Not computer savvy :biggrin: .

[TEHxFALLEN V1.2]

Hisworld.com lol

[jdmekcivic]

Word.

[nemesisz]

OH FUCK...

THE BAMBO THREAD .....


Goooooone
:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:
:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

Going to try to this out please dont worry and wish me luck to get it back on track.

[gid]

My name is JR. It means Joy & Rey.

I noticed that saspy lives in Austrailia.
"Would you like an Austrailian kiss?"
"...wtf is that?"
"It's like a French kiss.. but down under" :laughabove: :bellyroll: . A good brushing and rinse ( SCOPE ? ) of the :moon: may be in need when applying the AUSSIE kiss :tongue: . :barf:

[landrym28]

Great...guess I'm going to have to try and get my post count back up! :biggrin:

[TEHxFALLEN V1.2]

LOL!

Your location says, "Northeat" LOL!! anata wa kono hentai!! waii!!

[tk-421]

The wayback machine latest archive is February 08 and it shows a ton more posts than there is now.

Not sure what I can do to help, but if you can figure something out let me know.
YarisBueller should be able to recover the info using the wayback machine.... Unfortunately, the results on that page should be static, so it would have to be a manual process...

[TEHxFALLEN V1.2]

Me too.. Charles Manson.

[Bob_VT]

well i didnt need to re-register..but this sux asss!!!

I have my suspicion on who might have done this

I doubt he is smart enough!

[leasaunce]

why would any1 hacked into yarisworld! arghh!

[kuyachris84]

who do you think done this? maybe it's an inside job? ... lol

[TEHxFALLEN V1.2]

Morgan Freeman did it.

[Black Yaris]

I think it was Chuck Norris

[Malaya1221]

I think it was Chuck Norris

+1, he got mad at us for making the chuck norris thread!:biggrin:

[gid]

LOL!

Your location says, "Northeat" LOL!! anata wa kono hentai!! waii!! :bellyroll: :redface: .

I think that's what they call it in the furthest regions of the Northern hemisphere . Thanks for pointing that out , I better fix that :biggrin: .

[TEHxFALLEN V1.2]

:bellyroll: :redface: .

I think that's what they call it in the furthest regions of the Northern hemisphere . Thanks for pointing that out , I better fix that :biggrin: .

Yes! Before I get anymore perverted!

[gid]

Morgan Freeman did it. and Vice President G.F.Y.S. :middlefinger: :biggrin: .

[Stargate YARlantIS]

Well, I lost my account too, I used to be known as FL Bruce Now I can't even frackin' upload all my photos....WHY?????????? They are the same frackin' photos as last time... WTF???


Bruce

[tk-421]

Well... I guess we can all take this with a bit of perspective...
After all, a lot of people were angry at the negative direction the forums were taking lately. Perhaps this is a way to start clean and learn from our past mistakes?

[*MAD DOG*]

I'm not happy about this, in fact words can not fully express how I’m feeling at the moment about the site being hacked. I will not post what I really want to say as it won't be beneficial for anyone.

But, I do have a very important and valid question for the administrators.

Why would the last backup of this forum be a year old? You have a responsibility to the vendors who pay to have their ads, goods and threads on here and you also have a responsibility to the members.

I really feel for everyone, but the admin of this forum have to take full responsibility for this for not having proper back up procedures. Also proper back up procedures should be initiated immediately (Daily back ups at a bare minimum).

p.s. FUCK THE HACKERS that did this and I hope they die in a fire.

[Fenrizwolf]

This makes me a saaaad panda. :(

[TEHxFALLEN V1.2]

I'm not happy about this, in fact words can not fully express how I’m feeling at the moment about the site being hacked. I will not post what I really want to say as it won't be beneficial for anyone.

But, I do have a very important and valid question for the administrators.

Why would the last backup of this forum be a year old? You have a responsibility to the vendors who pay to have their ads, goods and threads on here and you also have a responsibility to the members.

I really feel for everyone, but the admin of this forum have to take full responsibility for this for not having proper back up procedures. Also proper back up procedures should be initiated immediately (Daily back ups at a bare minimum).

p.s. FUCK THE HACKERS that did this and I hope they die in a fire.

I hope they burn in a fire while their eyes are held wide open with needle nose pliers.

[tk-421]

Why would the last backup of this forum be a year old? You have a responsibility to the vendors who pay to have their ads, goods and threads on here and you also have a responsibility to the members.

I really feel for everyone, but the admin of this forum have to take full responsibility for this for not having proper back up procedures. Also proper back up procedures should be initiated immediately (Daily back ups at a bare minimum).

I have to agree with MAD DOG on this one. Just one or two of the monthly contributions from a sponsor will buy you the best hosting money can buy... And with automatic daily backups. Please consider giving your money to a host such as dreamhost.com the next time!

[saplaymate]

Whee

[jdmekcivic]

Morgan Freeman did it.

Dammit Morgan! Not again!

[gid]

song by THE FOOLS " LIFE SUCKS AND THEN YOU DIE " . For song and video go to www.youtube.com/watch?v=gejSEOnaYek . ENJOY :biggrin:

[fnkngrv]

I have a pit in my stomach....

[Shroomster]

THIS WILL BE ThE LAST TIME I POST THIS:


YB HAS ALREADY PERFORMED THE NECESSARY MAINTENANCE AND THAT DAILY BACKUPS ARE IN PLACE NOW (FROM NOW ON)


I know a lot of you are not going to read every post in this thread but hopefully you will see how many posts have been made so far and think "maybe what I'm thinking about the hack has already been posted about the hack"

please stop being aggravated at the forum admin. they had the site up and running about 2 hours after the hack if anything I'd be appreciative of that fact YB didn't up and say "screw it" and leave us with a 'White screen of death'

thank you for reading and WELCOME BACK everyone

[auxmike]

This sucks!
I lost my 3 hard earned stars, my new PM's are gone, I have to find my avater pic again, AND my favorite website for YARI info is now all old posts from last year.:mad:
To the "nice" person who did this....:middlefinger::middlefinger::middlefinger: :middlefinger::middlefinger::middlefinger:
It's good to be back though!:thumbup:

[ChinoCharles]

http://yarisworld.com/forums/showthread.php?t=9396

[tk-421]

I do feel a bit sorry for the hacker. Our community has quite a few savvy members that can do wonders with just an IP address. It's only a matter of time until we get to the bottom of this.

[dvlnblkdrs]

heh i love how overdramatic all you boys are.. really puts us females to shame.. lol

[CaysE]

I'm sorry to hear this guys... fortunately my account is still here, but I know how the fear is having run forums of my own. The best you can do is take it as a lesson and carry on. Some people truly just have nothing better to do than cause misery for others; a sad sorry truth.

[nicholmikey]

I bet it was Honda that hacked us, lame.

[TinyGiant]

heh i love how overdramatic all you boys are.. really puts us females to shame.. lol



for guys .. this is kinda like a turf.. you screw with our blood and sweat and time invested in the information on this site. there is cause for the boys to get riled up... :)

[TinyGiant]

is there a Fit world? maybe they did it lol

[foober]

thankyou to the people that run this forum. We'd be naive if we didn't know there are people jealous of the yaris and its following.

Just a guess but it might be a gas guzzeling company that hacked the yaris world. But then again those folks are so stupid they probably couldn't manage much of anything.

[gid]

My personal strategy to deal with this is to try replace as much info as I can remember, and start new threads as usual....Bottom line, sh!*t happens, and you can quit, or just keep pushing on...

"Nobody likes a moaner" - wisely said by Murray (aka. Gingerballs) from Flight of the Conchords...

P.S. I think I've lost my Moderator status...lol...

Cheers" LIFE SUCKS and THEN YOU DIE " , you may get a kick from it :wink: .

[TinyGiant]

Where is Garm!!!?!

[TinyGiant]

whoa.. echo is one of us again.. lol

[hasher22]

when i tried to go to this site it said

"THIS SITE HAS BEEN HACKED BY www.bimmerfest.com. YOU FUCKERS!"

or something like that.

[YoyotaTaris]

To the people who want to restore some important topics.

If you remember the thread titles, Google them, and use Google Cache to repost them in the forum.

You will have to do this quickly before Google updates its Cache (next few days).

Here, a head start.
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=site%3Awww.yarisworld.com%2Fforums&btnG=Search&meta=

[TinyGiant]

bimmerfest has a ton of members

[IsLNdbOi]

well i guess ill have to redo the Photography Sticky, the HDR Sticky, the kill caveatipse sticky....

Best watch out. He might have hired someone to do this. :tongue:

I'm glad my account wasn't one of the ones lost. Too bad it had to happen today, the day I traded my meteorite metallic '07 LB in for a polar white '09 five door LB.

[Luna V 2.0]

Ouch, I didn't really mind having to register again since I'm so new, but we lost SO much information. I went to go look at some of the threads I regularly look over for wheels and they are all GONE.

Ouch. :(

[YoyotaTaris]

We lost 62% of the boards posts and 57% of the boards accounts.

i.e we lost:

More than 231 000 posts.
and More than 7300 accounts.

:frown::frown::frown:

[IsLNdbOi]

If you have the googlebar addon for IE / Firefox, you can go to the main YW forums page and press the "Search Site" button on googlebar (leave the bar blank) and it will bring up 18000 or so cached pages.

[TinyGiant]

the real question .. what are the presidential candidates planning on doing about it..

[TinyGiant]

If you have the googlebar addon for IE / Firefox, you can go to the main YW forums page and press the "Search Site" button on googlebar (leave the bar blank) and it will bring up 18000 or so cached pages.

type


site:http://www.yarisworld.com

that will do the same thing

[Luna V 2.0]

To the people who want to restore some important topics.

If you remember the thread titles, Google them, and use Google Cache to repost them in the forum.

You will have to do this quickly before Google updates its Cache (next few days).

Here, a head start.
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=site%3Awww.yarisworld.com%2Fforums&btnG=Search&meta=

Tried this, but for some threads I can only see the last page, and since most of the important info is on the first post....

:frown:

[TEHxFALLEN V1.2]

Sweet, You're version 2.0!

[Luna V 2.0]

Lol, I almost went with 1.2 too. xD That could have caused confusion. And yay I restored one of the threads I was looking for on wheels.

Quick everyone restore your favorite threads before they're gone. D:

[CASTREX]

Amazing.... just the day I got the new TS sub forum up... :brokenheart:

[Luna V 2.0]

If someone manages to find BailOut's fuel economy thread cached please salvage it. I can't seem to find it myself. :cry:

[TinyGiant]

If someone manages to find BailOut's fuel economy thread cached please salvage it. I can't seem to find it myself. :cry:

site:http://www.yarisworld.com; bailout


search that it will give you any thing on google that has bailout in a YW page

then click cached to view it.

you can search for anything on the site that way .. just change the bailout to whatever you are searching for

[nemesisz]

Tried this, but for some threads I can only see the last page, and since most of the important info is on the first post....

:frown:

Like the list for Bambo's route. I hope I have a copy at work. :cry:

[Kal-El]

Wow, this is horrible.

The Hacker should be sent to prison (seriously) if caught. Thousands of hours of group effort gone.

:cry:

[Luna V 2.0]

Wow, this is horrible.

The Hacker should be sent to prison (seriously) if caught. Thousands of hours of group effort gone.

:cry:

That's what bothers me the MOST about all of this. I was always more of a lurker, and I'll probably go back to that pretty soon, but so many people put SO much effort writing guides and really great stickies on this forum.

I've learned more here than I have at Toyota's Yaris site. All of that is lost now.

I really didn't care about losing posts or my account, I feel bad for those who took the time to write really great informational stuff for the new people on the forum. And it really sucks for them that they might have to re write everything again, some threads people might just not bother re making. =/

[TinyGiant]

i bet 95% of the threads wont be redone..

[Luna V 2.0]

And thats fine if they weren't that important, but the stickies were pretty important. Some of them were old enough so they were backed up. The FE subforum though is totally bare. Ah well.

[Phaeton]

It was Caviatspe, I just know it lol.

[Sabretooth]

With the current state of the forum being changed, mainly due to the hack. Are there any possibilities that we are going to see a forum overhaul?

I would like to see our main forum options have subforums for everything:
Examples:
Performance Modifcation:
-Engine mod
-Intake mod
-Exhaust mod
-Suspension mod
-Brake mod

Forced Induction:
-Turbocharged
-Supercharged
-Other

Wheels/Rims/Tires

=================================
We need to rejuvenate the Yaris Spotlight threads.

I would love to see there being our regional sections, but with one person (moderator without the normal powers of a mod) devoted to updating the section including a calander or such if they come across any type of car/yaris related information at hand. I know the Cali guys would LOVE to have everything on a calandar.

I think we need to subsection the Everything else catagory...To where we have post whore threads, political threads, rant/rave threads, other car threads, etc. Just so we can move certain things where they belong. As for a thread that is devoted to EVERYTHING it can get a bit jumbled together.

Our vendors need their own sections again.

Our Classifieds area needs a section for: For sale items, Wanted items, and cars for sale, other stuff for sale sections...this will keep things organized for sure.

These are just an idea to get things a bit more organized IF there is ever a forum overhaul.


IF ANYONE HAS OTHERS IDEAS, PLEASE POST THEM HERE!!!!!

I for one think the forum is a bit dated. It doesnt have the flare as some of the other forums, but at least if we dont change the total look of the way things are, we can at least modify it for the better!

[tk-421]

Agreed. Now would be a good time to overhaul the forums. I would suggest to update vBulletin to the latest version, and getting some plugins, such as the "Live Update" one (like the mp3car.com forums)

[andries]

I'm back. It will take time my garage is also back.

And now ik go to Belgium.The is a FIA GT car race:wink:

[Sabretooth]

Scikotics.com has a killer website now, would be awesome to have something like that.

I am all for Premium member fees for us Hardcore users if it would call for having a much higher grade forum with proper bandwidth! ($10/year). Seeing that the funds are pushed into the forum development and maitenance.

[Yaris_Style]

Had to be someone in the Japanese market. I'm suspecting Fit.

LOL!!!!!!!!

...
That was funny, but this is BULLsHi4t. Very pathetic for someone to do this.
Shall I dare to profile this person? Probably someone that's not very liked, someone who's lonely and needs great attention. Something with..
A VAGINA! =P

Whatever, we all learn from out mistakes. Next time everything will just be backed up better, and we can ALL go out and do new DIY!!!!!!!!!! :wink:

[White Yaris]

this sucks... Come on yarisworld lets hunt this hacker down... i wish. At least the important things were back up. And yarisworld.com is up and alive :thumbup:

[Yaris_Style]

To the people who want to restore some important topics.

If you remember the thread titles, Google them, and use Google Cache to repost them in the forum.

You will have to do this quickly before Google updates its Cache (next few days).

Here, a head start.
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=site%3Awww.yarisworld.com%2Fforums&btnG=Search&meta=

excellent idea... guys..!

[CASTREX]

The new Yaris TS sub forum was created today... it only lasted a few hours.

Admins... please bring it back!!!

[Thirty-Nine]

Man, very sorry to hear about this. Let's keep this site going!

[cali yaris]

I have a couple of suggestions.

1. Please restore the Vendors sub forums ASAP.

2. I may incur loss of business based on the "presence" I carefully built on this forum. Maybe some free advertising credit would be fair. I also lost all my PMs.

3. Restore Vendor banners ASAP.

4. Please confirm a commitment to a rigorous backup schedule. Once a year is unacceptable.

[YarisPR]

this sucks balls........


at least my account wasn't deleted :thumbup:

[Shroomster]

hey wb Garm finally hehe

[cali yaris]

TY

What exactly got "hacked"?

[Shroomster]

the entire site....all the stuff for the past year on the forum is gone

[lostmind]

wow. Honestly, I'd like to know what the issue was with backups before. This was such a busy and successful site, overlooking something as simple as backups... mind boggling. No offense but the last backup was last year? Was that a big tarball from a server move and no backups since?

[detroiter]

I know were supposed to refrain from such language but I absolutely must make an exception this one instance...

I'd like to extend a big FUCK YOU to the person(s) responsible for this mess. It's not like this forum is a breeder of hate mongering and such that is usually expected from a internet forum. This forum contains some of the nicest and down to earth people one could meet and hold discussions with. Absolutely no reason why it should have happened here.

[*MAD DOG*]

I'm not happy about this, in fact words can not fully express how I’m feeling at the moment about the site being hacked. I will not post what I really want to say as it won't be beneficial for anyone.

But, I do have a very important and valid question for the administrators.

Why would the last backup of this forum be a year old? You have a responsibility to the vendors who pay to have their ads, goods and threads on here and you also have a responsibility to the members.

I really feel for everyone, but the admin of this forum have to take full responsibility for this for not having proper back up procedures. Also proper back up procedures should be initiated immediately (Daily back ups at a bare minimum).

p.s. FUCK THE HACKERS that did this and I hope they die in a fire.

Yeah, I couldn't agree with myself more on this one :smile:

[Thirty-Nine]

It's truly sad that there are people that get a kick out of doing such stuff. It's pathetic.

[BettyWoohoo]

NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!! I'm so sad!! Alot of the stuff I was gonna try out on my car .. and all the information in my private messages is gone!!! I WANNA CRY!

Well At least the sight is still up,and I hope all the awesome helpful people come back or are still here..

Sad day

[AznGouki]

God this sucks

[harveyjai]

Sigh...got to set everything up again...=.=

[DFA]

Fucking hackers!! That guy who fucked us has to be burned alive.

All there's left to do now is rebuild...

[Ryu]

Agree on getting vendor sub-forum back up ASAP.

[kuyachris84]

This is like 9/11 for yarisworld... lol

Damn terrorist!

[goku87]

I'm not gonna lie... no backups for a year? That's just dumb. I'm sad. All the awesome stuff that was on here is gone. I didn't really contribute much, but I did learn a $#!+ ton from this site. It has definitely saved me from making costly mistakes on my car.

I hate hackers.

[TinyGiant]

sad thing...the hacker is probably reading this and over joyed.. getting what he wanted.. like a terrorist they enjoy in others pain... it is pretty pathetic,,

someone needs find out who it is and file with the FBI internet fraud and cyber terrorism deptartment.. make it hit home.. hard

[Minne_Yaris]

this is the only time I'm FOR the death penalty!!!!

[Greenthunder]

Well I guess we'll just have to rebuild :iono:

[ChinoCharles]

Just please be patient everyone.

[Astroman]

+1 on the calendar feature.

[eco]

LOL,google cached this site more then our admin,thats just sad,not trying to make enemys,but backups are a rule of thumb.

[Ferret_san]

Hmmm. Seems the timing is a bit off when you acidentially click search to many times...


This forum requires that you wait 5 seconds between searches. Please try again in 13273 seconds.

[Sodium Duck]

Grrrr, google cache doesn't save the pics I uploaded via yarisworld as attachments to my posts.

[YarisBueller]

Yeah, I couldn't agree with myself more on this one :smile:

I feel horrible about this but what do you want me to do at this point? I didn't ask for this, I never did anything to piss anyone off. Someone very malicious and vicious came and attacked the forum and I've been working for more hours then I can count to bring things back as best as possible. Sure I wish I had daily backups. Sure I wish we had a 24 hour onsite server maintainance company to watch things for us and keep the hackers out. But the fact is that I'm one person who is trying to run the site in conjuction with an amazing moderator team and amazing site membership. This place is a homegrown effort for sure. I'm frustrated and I want to snap quite a few necks right now, but the only thing I can actually do and have an effect on is to get things back up to par. I haven't even spent that much time trying to trace the hacker as I have been in just setting things right. At this point retribution is much less important than getting the ship floating and sailing straight again. Take my word for it, its alot of work and I might be moving the server completly today as right now we are leasing the space and since i'm dropping some more money on daily backups I might as well spend some on a new server... theres alot on my plate right now and i'm doing what I can to fix things and i'm sorry I didnt do everything I probably should of but please remember this is a complete donation of my time and money; i've never asked for anything from anyone and never will. Sorry i'm rambling right now. Ok, keep the PMs with suggestions coming i'm implementing things as they come in so if you've ever wanted something, nows the time to ask :)

:thumbup:

[Nexus1155]

since this site has been hacked i don't look at it as a downfall, i look at it as a fresh chance to make new threads/advancements quicker so we can get rid of the old threads that are there now :D

[Driver]

I didn't know about the hacking till I got the email informing me of it. I hope the moron(s) who did this pay in a very painful way. A curse upon their houses and computers.

[ddongbap]

I'm sure google has it cached somewhere. haha.

[Violin]

Gahh!

[TinyGiant]

having some issues..

it says i cant search the forum for 5750 seconds.

also when i tried to post in the build a story thread I got errors and when i refreshed and tried to post it said that it was duplicate post.. which it wasnt.

seems there might be some database build up.. or bad file permissions or something.. idk

[YarisBueller]

I think it has to do with the clock error we had this morning. It should fix itself by 1:40PM today. About 2 more hours from now. Sorry bout this but it should be a one time problem and all should be ok after 1:40-1:50PM EST

[cali yaris]

I'm staying as a member, but the owner has made it clear that he doesn't care if vendors stay or go.

Seems to me that a year of helpfulness and product procurement would be desirable. So I haven't decided about that yet.

[jookybanana]

getting hacked sucks big time.
props to the admin for doing his best to get it back together,
and i dont get why everyone getting mad at admin for, i would understand if the vendors are, but for the rest of us its free what do you expect? i lost all my post and pics, not the end of the world

[kargoboy]

I'm back & just waiting for my sub-forum to be reinstated. I'm not going to
re-do the old threads but I will repost the most important info.