ive been working for weeks on a site on qupis......
but afew days ago someone hacked it, there are now porn sites all over my index.html file and im not very sure what else has happened.........my forum DB is down

i am truly screwed, cos the hacker made all the links on the site lead to porn sites but still look like the old ones

i have already recieved a few angry letters.... what can i do?

how do i shut down my hosting....i cant get into the damn thing


my password was randomly generated too.......

This post has been edited by XPkiller: Apr 28 2007, 10:47 AM

First step you can take is to change your cPanel password. I am assuming this is the password that has been changed. Goto the link below and follow the prompts. NOTE: This process needs 10 HOSTING CREDITS to complete, which I'm sure is a worthy sacrifice, just make sure you have them!

Reset CPanel Password (10 Credits)

If you cannot find any other solution, you can terminate your hosting. It will get rid of your site all together, but only use this as a last resort.

Terminate Hosting

Good Luck
-jimmy

PS: If anyone is wondering where I got the links from, there in the Free Web Hosting menu at the top of every AstaHost page!

The easiest way to resolve this problem is by visiting the Forgot Password link. If you, for some reason, don't have access to the mail you used when registering, no one can help you.

And be careful when creating web sites, you must keep an eye on security

Correction #1 changing your qupis password through the credit system won't work since you don't need credits to get a qupis account and it's not set to make changes to the password. Now pyost that would be a reasonable step to do; however, most likely the hacker changed the email address as well so it couldn't be retrieved through normal means. So XPkiller your best bet is to let qupis support know that your site was hacked and beyond repair and that you want it to be shutdown. Just make sure to give them your qupis website url and other info as well so they can terminate the account.


Next question I have what scripts and forum were you running (include the version) so others will have a good idea what happen.

i was using a PHPBB2 forum, i didnt have any scripts other than that

i was going to install them last

And that's where you've made your first mistake, if you ask me. It's well-known that phpBB is highly unreliable and utterly easy to hack. If you don't want the same thing to happen again, I advise you to switch to SMF or some other free forum software.