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[★ Ryuujin !]

Alright guys. As some of you know, I got hacked tonight.

Honestly, I don't think they're out to get the site as much as they are out to get me, personally. In all honesty... I saw this coming, and many of you knew I did. They attempted to ban me via E-mail, changed my karma to -9001 [which is just sad] and they banned Akira after disabling his account [thankfully, I reversed all of this], not to mention successively deleted his bio - which, while not hindering me much, is quite a nuisance.

I have my suspicions on who preformed this act, however.

SO! Just in case, I'm gonna ask you all to do a few things.

I want you to BACK UP YOUR PROFILES! Keep them saved somewhere!
BACK UP IMPORTANT THREADS! It may seem like some work, but if we end up having to do a roll back or something, you'll still have them.
PM ME IF YOU WANT TO KEEP CONTACT! I'm not sure if they'll be back or not, but if you PM me, I will give you my Email / IMs to keep you updated in case if something DOES happen.

NOW. There are a few other guidelines I want you to read over, just as I feel they need to be here after what happened to me.

Safety Guidlines

Crackers get hold of your passwords by gaining access to email via the security question, or by guessing the password of an admin or gmod, or running a scanner to do the same.

Follow these guidelines :-

1. Ensure your email password security question is not obvious (don't have 'my favourite football team' then go talking about them non stop)
2. You may want to change your email address / provider (the cracker may still have access to the old one)
3. Use the 'Hide email' option (if you want members to contact you, use one of the free 'throwaway' emails for public view)
4. Make ANY passwords difficult (use upper and lower case letters, mixed with numbers)
5. Use different passwords for each account.
6. Use different email for your main Admin account(s), and don't make it public.
7. Don't let ANYONE know your passwords (if you make a note of them, keep them safe)
8. If you share a computer/ computer account, don't 'let the computer remember password'
9. Tell your main staff to do the same (2nd Admin, and G Mods)
10. Don't open links in PM's, unless you know EXACTLY what it is.

[Cori]

I swear to god, if I ever find out who did this, I will gut them in their sleep and hang their intestines from a pole as an example to other dumb shits who think it's cool to mess with someone's hard work like that. I'll be changing my email shortly, as soon as I can set a new one up. Also, if you want, I can save a copy of Aki's profile to my computer and elsewhere for you once you've re-done it just to be extra safe. I hope whoever is responsible for this bullshit dies in a house fire before I can get my hands on them. >.>