ADMIN ANNOUNCEMENT SEVERE ERRORS IN DATBASE OR COMPROMISED SITE

[Tony]

Several hours ago the site was compromised, either through technical problems at NING or by an individual.

Some 50+ members suddenly became admin and at least one member was banned. The banning of this one member resulted in the loss of major sections of SOE in regards to new members and admin content. These 50 new admins were overwhelemd with NING generated mails. Thank you to the new admins for pointing this out via mails, we do appologize.

Brad will be contacting NING as he is the creator of the site. I have sent a request to NING for information and hopefully a restore of lost content.

We are still trying to find out what else was compromised.

Some links may not work anymore due to the fact that the content is gone, the standard greeting used to help new members navigate the network has non-functional links.

We apologise for the inconveniance caused, if you have noticed anything else then please let us know via this thread or mail the information to Brad or myself.

Thank you and once again we apologize for the inconvenience.

[Besimi]

Well ! at least we picking up back. ..things will get back to normal anyway. ..ups & downs ,as webeen having ...
This Site has already gotten BIG Momentum , lots of new mwmbers,and enthusiasm is growing very very fast.
>>>>>LIGHT IS SPREADING FAST NOW,ALL OVER THE WORLD,THERE IS NO STOPING ANYMOREbr /> ...........................................................Namaste, and lots of Love to All.

[Tony]

Well i deliberately left out the third option of the person or family you refer to until we heared back from NING. But yes, an admin or someone with access to that account could easily demote another admin and ban him and quickly promote 50 people to admin. But there are some strange other symptoms, for example the comment wall of Basilis is completely empty.

But if we do not receive many other examples of missing content then the damage seems minimal. All 1400 members could have been banned with a few clicks thus removing all content.

Brad Johnson said:

My guess is Kerry's ex got onto Kerry's old account here and screwed things up. Kerry's all lovey dovey with him all over again so my guess is something happened there.

[Tony]

Thank you vivienne, yes some 50 members received the same message. As for the relevancy, we are awaiting a reply from NING as to what happened. As for the content, i think it is lost, it will be recreated. It mainly impacts new-members signing up. We will do all we can to ensure the content is recreated.

Vivienne Hunter said:

Hey, good luck poutting it all back as best yu can.. i got this (below) a little while ago, dont know if it's relevant or not she is definitely unhappy about something
all best, Viv

A banned member has sent you a message on Saviors of Earth. Miss Kerry ([e-mail]) writes:

oh get a life dork

To unban Miss Kerry, go to:
http://saviorsofearth.ning.com/main/membership/listBanned

[Tony]

Several posts to this thread seem to state that Kerry was the culprit in an attempt to "bring out the truth about Brad".

We are alas plagued by some revisiting members under different logins who seem to think that the community as a whole or part is interested in Brads past or current undertakings. It has been made clear on many occasion that;

1. If they believe ANY member at SOE is or was involved in illegal or criminal activities or in breach of NING TOS they should contact the appropiate authorities and take it from there
2. members here are not interested in drama or hate posts. or posts on Brads or any other members personal affairs
3. Any hate/drama posts against any member will be removed and the member banned (depending on the severity)
4. Take any grievance with any member up via mail directly or through mediation with an admin

But most important of all is rule 1, this applies to all members.

[Lea Anna Cooper]

Vivienne Hunter said:

Hey, good luck poutting it all back as best yu can.. i got this (below) a little while ago, dont know if it's relevant or not she is definitely unhappy about something
all best, Viv A banned member has sent you a message on Saviors of Earth. Miss Kerry ([e-mail]) writes:


________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Hi Viv...I got that same e-mail, plus others as well. I told Besimi it was my impression that they were looking to steal e-mail addresses for spamming or selling for spam. I became suspicious with their personal e-mail address for response. I'm really happy that they removed that nasty letter to Tony from my page, as well. I guess some groups cannot stand the value of real light workers.

Hugs...Lea
oh get a life dork

To unban Miss Kerry, go to:
http://saviorsofearth.ning.com/main/membership/listBanned