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[JamesPickens]

CoryMathews
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Group: Members
Posts: 26
Member No.: 4236
Joined: 20-March 05

We have 3140 registered members

now how is he 4236 if we only got 3140 registered members :|

[Donna]

remember when we all got deleted?

That membership number is correct, if a member gets deleted the next registration to join will take the next highest number, so really P2L should have over 4,000 members.

[syntex]

Confusing!

[JamesPickens]

ah yes. syntex i dont believe u were here before delete so you probally wouldnt understand.

[Jaymz]

A while back the users table was hacked and all members were deleted. BUT the autonumbering of the tables in MYSQL continued where it left off when we all re-registered, so the number is way higher than it should be. Plus, I think that users without any posts are pruned every so often automatically...

[syntex]

Who hacked it andwhat did he have against P2L?

[p0iz]

Who hacked it andwhat did he have against P2L?

id like to hear the same

[JamesPickens]

honestly.. i can not remember who hacked us but i dont believe it was publicly release for the sake of legal matters.

[Jamie Huskisson]

i believe it was a simple guy who found out we where using 1.3 of invision board and took advantage of the huge security holes left in it, and took us out

we are upgraded to 1.3.1 final now, which has no security holes such as that left in it

[JamesPickens]

that is jay if you guys did your own security cause clantemplates just got hacked on ipb1.3.1 with a few stupid scripts and other holes found in ipb 1.3.1 final which caused us to go to vB tihs past week.

[Jamie Huskisson]

that is jay if you guys did your own security cause clantemplates just got hacked on ipb1.3.1 with a few stupid scripts and other holes found in ipb 1.3.1 final which caused us to go to vB tihs past week.

i've fixed a couple of holes i know of myself

[syntex]

Ohh so thats what happened, Sumthing else i really wana know what happened to members 2,3,4,5 ya know they not here at all

[Jamie Huskisson]

the membership id is a primary key in the table, so therefore if you deleted a member by the id of "5", another user could not not that id 5, infact they'd go onto the next available id number

users 2 to about 1000 something where deleted in the hacking

[Neil]

mysql does that, its the AUTO_INCREMENT function that makes the numbering so weird <== does that make sence?

[syntex]

Woah Ur names neil so is mine and yea it duz make sense

[Neil]

what a lovely name u have

[syntex]

Rofl @ Neil thanks ur name is great