No problems people. Trap17 rocks. Atleast all my files are safe. My site was up n running all the time. But why didn't the hacker do any damage??

But my password wasen't weak by any measure. It was 14-17 chars long!!! Though it was made up of dictionary words. This is a wake up call to all trap17 members to backup their data on their PCs too. Is there any way we can backup our SQL databases??

On my site www.angadsodhi.com , I have just a wordpress blog with 6 themes on it. Can it take up as much as 20MBs?? The default installation of WP is hardly 3MBs. Could themes take up so much space or has the culprit done some unnoticed damage to the system that is causing it to misinterpret the disc space??

Thanks n Cheers!! Trap17 rocks!!!!!

Hey people guess what. As Buffalo said, I checked my account for any unwanted files and guess what I found: A folder named 9xYenBai.Com which had about 10 music files. How the heck did the author of 9xYenBai.Com get access to my account and put up his illegal files there??

We must be extra careful about our passwords from now on.

 

 

 

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In your cpanel you have an option called back up it is listed in the Site Management Tool, five rows down 2 columns in, you can' miss it, it would be better to do a full site back up because that will back up everything including your MySQL. For safety measures though you can download individual backs ups of your MySQL DB's for extra protection.

As for your wordpress, once you start writing articles and blogs that folder will get bigger and biggest, themese are hardly ever that big unless the person who codes them doesn't clean them up and make hte image file sizes small.





I think everyone who has been affected by this hacker should look for that folder 9xYenBai.Com and delete it of course. Question I have is did you have to do any digging for that folder or was it on the main directory of your file manager account?

 

 

 

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It was in the main directory (the public_html folder) itself. Wonder how it missed my eye.

I have another problem. When I try to create an email address, it tells me that I have exhausted my maximum limit for email addresses whereas I haven't created any and the cpanel shows 0/unlimited!!!!
Don't know whether this problem was persistent before the hack so I'm not saying this topic has anything to do with it. But please help me out.

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wow, this is pretty serious stuff. My password for something got stolen once, it was not fun.

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Why people always want to mess with other peopes work
Am fortunate I got helped very well by BuffaloHELP, but would have lost all my work I put into it if I didnt make any backup,
my whole public_html folder was empty except for the standard maps.

So peoples, make backups on a regular basis!

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That might be account related as each hosting account should have only 99 and not unlimited, you will have to send in a support ticket, however, the end results might be the same and that is you would have to terminate your hosting and re-register for a new one. I could be wrong about that though, but either way just send in a support ticket about your email account being set to unlimited.

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Is unlimited something like -1??
Heres a screenshot of my cpanel

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You know what's surprising even after this ordeal?

1) some hosting members are still not aware of this situation and have not request any help on their hosting accounts. I cannot perform the proper course of action unless I have hosting members' permission or request. My hands are tied until then.

2) even after resetting their cpanel password, their contact email addresses are still not of their own--which makes my effort of resetting and regaining control of hijacked accounts meaningless--hackers can request your current password since your cpanel contact email address is set to hackers! This is ridiculous.

I need every hosting members to double check your cpanel to see every information relating to your private information is all correct and updated.

I do not mind administrating your hosting accounts due to Trap17's security issues but I do mind administrating for hosting member's disinterest and lack of urgency when it comes to checking and updating a simple thing as cpanel contact email address.

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I've double checked my cPanel and all my settings are secure.

I've updated the email and has set a very difficult password. So rest assured.

I regulary monitor the last login IP so that I can make sure that one one else has accessed my cPanel.

Thanks a lot BH for the concern.

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Like I put up a thread in the suggestion area, people should use complex password rather than easily crackable passwords. Even though special case characters are not allowed, there are way to set up passwords that are not easily crackable until someone has access to your brain lol.
my thought would be to use an alph-numerice with uppercase and lower case character. Thats equal to a middle case security, max security obviously to include special case characters.

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