A well-meant reminder.
Dear users,
as you probably have noticed the XJ website was down for "maintenance" during the last days. Actually we didn't plan to write a newspost about this, to avoid giving the guy/the people behind this any attention at all, but unfortunately the circumstances made this necessary.
What happened?
So why was the page down? Well, it wasn't exactly for maintenance... actually XJ was attacked by a "hacker" again. Someone illegally gained access to brendo's account, abused brendo's forum permissions to mess around with the forums and make all of the secret admin/development forums visible to the public.
We don't know who did it yet, since this guy used a proxy to hide his real IP when he did all that stuff, but we're still investigating the case. The only logical assumption is, that it was one of the insilio or Cosy Climbing admins since brendo used his XJ password on both sites as well and only these admins could find out his password with a little trick and access to the site's database or ftp...
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The aftermath
As you might imagine a lot of information and valuable stuff got leaked, means XJ took real damage by these actions. It's easy to imagine that everyone involved, means admins or other guys helping out with coding etc, got really pissed and offended by this attempt to steal their work and publishing it without their permission. They even lost the motivation and fun in it and are not sure if they will continue their work.
Don't forget: It's their work, therefore THEY decide whether and when they want to publish/release it or not - and NOT you.
Therefore we'd like to ask all downloaders to keep the files for yourself and don't send them to your friends.
Here is a short statement by SchlumPF, who coded big parts of the new XJ plugin:
Dear downloaders, I'm begging you: Do _not_ release any parts of the code. Numb and I put months of work into the plugins and we really don't want to become the codes public since we planned to give them only to XJ. Please contact me to talk about this if you downloaded anything, you may even use parts of the plugins as long as you don't share them.
Furthermore we'd like to ask everyone who might have information about this event (or the people behind it) to help us investigating this case.
Here are some lines for the "hacker" as well: Whoever you are and and whatever your intentions were ... if you talk to us about who you are and why you did it you might get away with a warning. So if there were any "positive motives" behind the negative action at all, this is YOUR TIME to be a man and talk about CHANGES and tell everyone what you think about XJ and why you did it.
Remember: Even if you don't agree with all the admin's decision or all the people who "lead" this community, XJ is still the "heart" of the Kreedz community and actions like this might KILL the site because the people behind it feel offended and might not want to go on. I'm not going to mince matters: Shut the fuck up or the site will be closed permanently. This was the 3rd attempt to "hack" XJ - and believe me, we got better things to do in our spare time than fixing the damages made by "hackers".
P.S: Real hackers only show that they can get in a system (which is no big effort since we are using e107 and there are even public exploits available) and don't do any damage to the system at all... So this is no hacking, this is just immature kiddie cracker shit without honor or respect... So don't be too proud.
as you probably have noticed the XJ website was down for "maintenance" during the last days. Actually we didn't plan to write a newspost about this, to avoid giving the guy/the people behind this any attention at all, but unfortunately the circumstances made this necessary.
What happened?
So why was the page down? Well, it wasn't exactly for maintenance... actually XJ was attacked by a "hacker" again. Someone illegally gained access to brendo's account, abused brendo's forum permissions to mess around with the forums and make all of the secret admin/development forums visible to the public.
We don't know who did it yet, since this guy used a proxy to hide his real IP when he did all that stuff, but we're still investigating the case. The only logical assumption is, that it was one of the insilio or Cosy Climbing admins since brendo used his XJ password on both sites as well and only these admins could find out his password with a little trick and access to the site's database or ftp...
-
The aftermath
As you might imagine a lot of information and valuable stuff got leaked, means XJ took real damage by these actions. It's easy to imagine that everyone involved, means admins or other guys helping out with coding etc, got really pissed and offended by this attempt to steal their work and publishing it without their permission. They even lost the motivation and fun in it and are not sure if they will continue their work.
Don't forget: It's their work, therefore THEY decide whether and when they want to publish/release it or not - and NOT you.
Therefore we'd like to ask all downloaders to keep the files for yourself and don't send them to your friends.
Here is a short statement by SchlumPF, who coded big parts of the new XJ plugin:
Dear downloaders, I'm begging you: Do _not_ release any parts of the code. Numb and I put months of work into the plugins and we really don't want to become the codes public since we planned to give them only to XJ. Please contact me to talk about this if you downloaded anything, you may even use parts of the plugins as long as you don't share them.
Furthermore we'd like to ask everyone who might have information about this event (or the people behind it) to help us investigating this case.
Here are some lines for the "hacker" as well: Whoever you are and and whatever your intentions were ... if you talk to us about who you are and why you did it you might get away with a warning. So if there were any "positive motives" behind the negative action at all, this is YOUR TIME to be a man and talk about CHANGES and tell everyone what you think about XJ and why you did it.
Remember: Even if you don't agree with all the admin's decision or all the people who "lead" this community, XJ is still the "heart" of the Kreedz community and actions like this might KILL the site because the people behind it feel offended and might not want to go on. I'm not going to mince matters: Shut the fuck up or the site will be closed permanently. This was the 3rd attempt to "hack" XJ - and believe me, we got better things to do in our spare time than fixing the damages made by "hackers".
P.S: Real hackers only show that they can get in a system (which is no big effort since we are using e107 and there are even public exploits available) and don't do any damage to the system at all... So this is no hacking, this is just immature kiddie cracker shit without honor or respect... So don't be too proud.