Was I Hacked?

shimshon · Hangin' Around Joined: Sep 25, 2005 Posts: 48

Hi,

I think I got hacked!?
I can't login to admin
All modules are inactive
All news disapeared.
What can I do?
Thanks,
Shimshon
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hitwalker · Sells PC To Pay For Divorce Joined: Posts: 5661

go to your admin.php and create account..
very fast..

shimshon · Hangin' Around Joined: Sep 25, 2005 Posts: 48

I tried to do it but I can't log in. I always get redirected to the 'create account' page

hitwalker · Sells PC To Pay For Divorce Joined: Posts: 5661

for better help you can pm me login details of cpanel/ftp..etc.....

jakec · Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 12:54 pm

What happens if you create a new superuser account like it says?

or are you saying you've done that and it stills doesn't work?

Is this a new site?

shimshon · Hangin' Around Joined: Sep 25, 2005 Posts: 48

To Jacek - I did it but it didn't work.... the site is not new

To hitwalker: What details do you need? my login is not working anymore

hitwalker · Sells PC To Pay For Divorce Joined: Posts: 5661

well in order to get it working again i have to be in the database, so i need access to cpanel ..
but it looks like a hack...
problem is that you never know if they left anything behind..

hitwalker · Sells PC To Pay For Divorce Joined: Posts: 5661

i got the info but as soon as i wanted to use phpmyadmin it opend with an error...

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: pma_reloadnavigation() in /usr/local/apache/htdocs/phpMyAdmin-2.6.3/header.inc.php on line 133

i tried 3 times...
difficult to help...

shimshon · Hangin' Around Joined: Sep 25, 2005 Posts: 48

Saw that - what can I do? Looks like a lot of work...

hitwalker · Sells PC To Pay For Divorce Joined: Posts: 5661

well i get the error in firefox and IE.
best thing you can do is call your host...
and let them fix it asap..

shimshon · Hangin' Around Joined: Sep 25, 2005 Posts: 48

Well - thanks a lot anyway. Do you think it was a hack?

hitwalker · Sells PC To Pay For Divorce Joined: Posts: 5661

yes i think so but not sure...
they wiped out your details so that says enough...

untill its not fixed i suggest you take out the config.php file and put a maintenance index.html file in the root...

shimshon · Hangin' Around Joined: Sep 25, 2005 Posts: 48

thanks

shimshon · Hangin' Around Joined: Sep 25, 2005 Posts: 48

What can I do to protect my site in the future?
sentinel didn't seem to help there...

hitwalker · Sells PC To Pay For Divorce Joined: Posts: 5661

thats hard to say...
we all asume something hacked you but were not sure.,..
it will be more clear when the database can be seen.

hitwalker · Sells PC To Pay For Divorce Joined: Posts: 5661

when do you do have access again in phpmyadmin run this in the mysql box.

UPDATE nuke_modules
SET active = '1'
WHERE active = '0';

jakec · Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 6:06 am

Well it looks like you're using an older version of Sentinel so I would upgrade this to the latest.

It would be ineteresting to know how they got in so check your logs traces of how they got in.

hitwalker · Sells PC To Pay For Divorce Joined: Posts: 5661

i doubt that,its atleast 2.4.2pl5 ,with ravennuke distro...
only chance you make is with vunerable 3d junk,and it doesnt look he has something like that installed.

Susann · Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 8:11 am

Seems all is working again. Would be interesting if this has something to do with the database or was the site really hacked ?

hitwalker · Sells PC To Pay For Divorce Joined: Posts: 5661

yeah ,would have been nice indeed..

shimshon · Hangin' Around Joined: Sep 25, 2005 Posts: 48

Sorry I didn't post earlier the results......work.
Anyway, this is the response I got from my host:

'We are sorry for the inconvenience. It seems that password is got corrupted of your default mysql. It needs to be reset.'

Somehow without changing the password it works again and I am trying to find out what they did.

Question: Do I need to put in the lines hitwalker gave me into mysql box?
UPDATE nuke_modules
SET active = '1'
WHERE active = '0';

and How do I upgrade my Sentinel version?

Thanks for all your help.

izone · Involved Joined: Sep 07, 2004 Posts: 354 Location: Sweden

shimshon, I don't think that you were hacked. This happened to one of my friends too for a time ago. It was the sql server error. He had Plesk and all of the sudden he had access to other site's db too from his own db!!! Laughing

So I think it is better that you change your user and pass for your db and don't forget to do it in you config.php too.

Quote:

Question: Do I need to put in the lines hitwalker gave me into mysql box?
UPDATE nuke_modules
SET active = '1'
WHERE active = '0';

Your modules are active now and you don't need to run this.

Regards.

shimshon · Hangin' Around Joined: Sep 25, 2005 Posts: 48

Will do that,
Thanks

hitwalker · Sells PC To Pay For Divorce Joined: Posts: 5661

what a complete wacko story.... killing me

Quote:

It seems that password is got corrupted of your default mysql

if that would have been the case your whole site wouldnt work.
But i do know ipowerweb ,they are responsible for corrupting a friends database.
I helped him to repair everything....,and moved him to lunarpages.com

shimshon · Hangin' Around Joined: Sep 25, 2005 Posts: 48

I don't know if I should start a new topic about that, but now I can't login to admin anymore?