WiiNewz, PSX-scene has lost it all

Hooya · Mar 12, 2008

From their website:

QUOTE said:
The site's sql database has myseriously been emptied of it's entire contents. Even a duplicate backup database is suddenly missing it's contents. We are not sure if this was a case of corrput MySQL or if we were hacked. Regardless, all of the data in PSX-SCENE's six year existence is now lost. Words cannot describe what we are feeling right now.

We are working hard to get the site back online as quickly as possible. Unfortunately, we will be starting with an almost entirely clean slate. We should be able to recover the user data but that's about it. We hope that, once the site is re-opened, you will continue to visit and help re-build PSX-SCENE & WiiNewz to their former glory.

- PSX-SCENE / WiiNewz Staff

http://psx-scene.com/cmps_index.php?page=psx-scene

shaunj66 · Mar 12, 2008

That sucks bad.

But it's a good reminder for everyone to take regular backups of EVERY thing.

Sick Wario · Mar 12, 2008

i saw the notice earlier and did not believe it.

any ideas? theories? i'm going to have to believe they were hacked

webyugioh · Mar 12, 2008

And I loved that site almost as much as GBATEMP.

superrob · Mar 12, 2008

I wanna kill that guy who did that!

psx-scene NEVER deserved to get hacked!

philthy · Mar 12, 2008

QUOTE said:
psx-scene NEVER deserved to get hacked!

SMH

xiaNaix · Mar 13, 2008

We're not entirely sure what happened but, rest assured, we WILL be back even if we have to start with a completely blank slate.

PikaPika · Mar 13, 2008

Speaking of backups, Shaun, do you make regular backups of GBAtemp?

Opium · Mar 13, 2008

pikadude1006 said:
Speaking of backups, Shaun, do you make regular backups of GBAtemp?

Backups are made, yes

cutterjohn · Mar 14, 2008

shaunj66 said:
That sucks bad.

But it's a good reminder for everyone to take regular backups of EVERY thing.

That was my thought as well. Backups are fairly cheap to make, and can be automated.

It should have even been feasible to dump a copy of the db every month or so compressed to some other location...

Well, that's a tough way to learn the lesson, but good luck putting things back together.

crafton48 · Mar 14, 2008

sounds like SQL injection to me

rjcrjc · Mar 14, 2008

Doesn't google/archive.org keep a cache?

hanman · Mar 14, 2008

not of the SQL database

superrob · Mar 15, 2008

crafton48 said:
sounds like SQL injection to me

I dont think so.

They said thier backup also where empty.
Which means someone must have logged into their ftp and removed all in the .sql backup file.

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