Has my site been hacked?

New Member Joined: Jun 28, 2009 Posts: 10

Hi,

Please can someone tell me what has probably happened to my site? Instead of my site I now have a ravennuke database message in its place and I have made no changes to this site, the last time I looked at it a couple of months ago it was fine, but now its gone! Thanks for any help.

THIS IS THE MESSAGE THAT IS DISPLAYED

There seems to be a problem connecting to the MySQL server.

MySQL is Reporting
Access denied for user 'xxxxx_yyyy'@'localhost' (using password: YES)

If you are the System Administrator and installing this for the first time, did you remember to create your database first?

There seems to be a problem with the System Configuration Table - it's missing.

If you are the System Administrator and installing this for the first time, did you remember to run the INSTALLATION/installSQL.php file?

If you are not the System Administrator, please report this to the Administrator and/or Web Master ASAP.

Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 7:34 am

Either something in your database has changed (Username, password, database name, etc) or the config.php has been changed and does not have the correct information for accessing the database.

Site Admin Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 6432

jane1965, be careful about posting messages that include your root path and database name - these can be used for malicious purposes.

Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 12:46 pm

Does anyone else have ftp access to the site? It looks like the config.php has been over written with the default one, or your host has changed something.

Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2009 4:14 am

Thanks for all the replies. As far I know, noone else had access to the site. The config.php file doesn't look as though it has been changed, still has my password and not 'yes' in it. I don't think my host has changed anything, as I am building another site using Ravennuke 2.30 and that is fine. I think the site was built using 2.20, so I think I might just rescue the files that I modified and start again at some point Smile

Involved Joined: Jul 03, 2006 Posts: 273

Did you look using phpMyAdmin to make sure your config table exists?

make sure you have a nuke_config table in your DB.

Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2009 11:48 am

What does the config table have to do with the error?

Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2009 2:18 pm

jane1965 wrote:

Hi,

Please can someone tell me what has probably happened to my site? Instead of my site I now have a ravennuke database message in its place and I have made no changes to this site, the last time I looked at it a couple of months ago it was fine, but now its gone! Thanks for any help.

THIS IS THE MESSAGE THAT IS DISPLAYED

There seems to be a problem connecting to the MySQL server.

MySQL is Reporting
Access denied for user 'xxxxx_yyyy'@'localhost' (using password: YES)

If you are the System Administrator and installing this for the first time, did you remember to create your database first?

There seems to be a problem with the System Configuration Table - it's missing.

If you are the System Administrator and installing this for the first time, did you remember to run the INSTALLATION/installSQL.php file?

If you are not the System Administrator, please report this to the Administrator and/or Web Master ASAP.

NVM I now see it said SQL is reporting Access denied. Missed that. Anyway I would just set a new password for the user and change my config. If error still exists it may be the SQL server needs a server path.