Aom Hacked?

I just received an email:

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Dear AOM Member,

your wonderful and magic site got hacked and your whole database including email addresses ip addresses forum posts private messages and personal messages got stolen. We contacted the AOM Staff over that but got no reply.

AOM staff please contact us and we tell you how to fix this security hole in your site because it still exists... so you and your members are safe again, we also advise you to get some security experts into your team cos there is a lot more bugs in the sourcecode of your tracker software.

In this instance sadly one of our Staff members decided it would benefit us to invite all AOM members, however i took notice of this fast enough and could stop it so only 100 or 150 members got an invite message and this has been stopped and our Staff member wont do it again nor are we giving out the Database to anyone.

This is the only mail you will ever get from us we wont contact you again or bother you but we felt the need to inform you all (most of you already know) about this breach of your privacy.

Please continue with the great site and team you have at ArtOfMisdirection (what a great name for a site) i´ve been a member ever since filefight and I wish you guys all the best and hope to run a site as cool as yours one day.

Greets,

salad.tl team


pz, eom

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wtf? :blink:

It seems this way, yes.
Looks like magic doesn't work well with security.

Yikes, not cool. I really hope they are able to fix their security issues.

well it seems this was going to happend sooner or later

probably the reasone for that is *fake open signups twice* and some guy(s) probably have been pissed by that lol

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well it seems this was going to happend sooner or later

probably the reasone for that is *fake open signups twice* and some guy(s) probably have been pissed by that lol

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Lol I guess they deserve it. Trying to keek a magic tracker *cough* rare. Well I guess it should be rare. Who the heck really needs a magic tracker?

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Originally Posted by fOrUmAs

well it seems this was going to happend sooner or later

probably the reasone for that is *fake open signups twice* and some guy(s) probably have been pissed by that lol

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Yeah! If i know how to do it i would do it to :P

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Originally Posted by saulin

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well it seems this was going to happend sooner or later

probably the reasone for that is *fake open signups twice* and some guy(s) probably have been pissed by that lol

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Lol I guess they deserve it. Trying to keek a magic tracker *cough* rare. Well I guess it should be rare. Who the heck really needs a magic tracker?

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I doubt many trackers care about their rarity. aom probably just wanted to have a good small community

Yea AOM imo is awesome, i applied but got denied because i dont have enough magic dvd's :(

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your wonderful and magic site got hacked and your whole database including email addresses ip addresses forum posts private messages and personal messages got stolen

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lol, is it safe to be there ?

oh i wish to be Hacker :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by predateur

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your wonderful and magic site got hacked and your whole database including email addresses ip addresses forum posts private messages and personal messages got stolen

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lol, is it safe to be there ?

oh i wish to be Hacker :rolleyes:

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being a hacker is not an easy job mate , may b u spend some years out of your life in jail..

To anyone thinking this was a milicous hack, READ THE EMAIL.
Its a notification offering the admins of the site the opportunity to fix the holes, they aren't giving out the DB or anything...

Lets hope. The site doesn't need this type of attention. This post was useless and should of been kept private(They have a forum and a staff inbox). I don't think AOM wants or needs all this attention on FST. I do agree with why they don't want members who are not magic experts. Give these AOM threads a rest please.

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Originally Posted by T.S.O.L.

I doubt many trackers care about their rarity. aom probably just wanted to have a good small community

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:OAh yes.. Thats the whole point. Only magic experts. If your not an expert, then AOM doesn't pertain to you.

ohh this is why I got a random invite to a tracker called salad :dry:

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:ohmy:Ah yes.. Thats the whole point. Only magic experts. If your not an expert, then AOM doesn't pertain to you.

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Yep! FST is full of magicians! As you can see by the numerous AOM requests and everyone trying to signup with the fake open signups :D

So they could trade for lower level sites such as revt-ect.lol. Not me! site has issues it seems not to balanced.

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Originally Posted by saulin

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:ohmy:Ah yes.. Thats the whole point. Only magic experts. If your not an expert, then AOM doesn't pertain to you.

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Yep! FST is full of magicians! As you can see by the numerous AOM requests and everyone trying to signup with the fake open signups :D

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Every BT Tracker has it's fair share of problems(Don't use that excuse). The admin already explained the requirements. Members apart of AOM, should keep AOM news, within AOM(I said it three times lol). If the admin wanted this news out, she would be a comm rep here and share it with us(But thats not the case). Also I think it was really nice of her to explain the whole sign-up situation with us, even though there was not any requirement to do so. Shows that they care and actually respect their members (Or people wanting to be members). If your Magic expert contact AOM. If not, be happy and let live. You won't become a member there.

owned by a Magic Hacker LOL

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Originally Posted by Tokeman

To anyone thinking this was a milicous hack, READ THE EMAIL.
Its a notification offering the admins of the site the opportunity to fix the holes, they aren't giving out the DB or anything...

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These people stole the database I guess that is not considered malicious in your eyes, but it could be used for a bunch of other things like for example spam.

If these hackers really cared they would of found the hole and reported it with out having to steal the database and emails.

I feel sorry for the site but this has happened to so many sites in the past few months that I hope site coders start to really look at there site security before anything else.

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Dear AOM Member,

... i´ve been a member ever since filefight ...

Greets,

salad.tl team

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But of course you are, hacking the site from inside is much easier, isn't it?

Don't be fooled with salad's gracious and kind full message, if he gave a *!#@ he would personally and privately notify the admins and not send a world-wide-spread message to all the users...

Then again, i do not think these guys mean any harm, they just want to show the community that AOM is not that great and get other site owners scared while showing the world who's on top. if i was a 15-years wanker i would probably do the same thing... :)

Personally, if i was the owner, first i would be terrified, probably take the site offline to the garage, try to figure out how the hell it happend.
Once the mistery is unfolded, i would track down these guys down, if they are members they must have left trails, but then again, it seems that the guys only know their way around magic... Probably the site is still up. :happy:

And as we already know, magic will not solve this one out!!!

I didnt get any such mail :O

Wow that's scary

hmmm... i got 28 pm's :

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HHAHAHAH THIS SITE WAS HACKED BY AOMKILLER.NET STOP DDOSING US YOU FAGGOTS OR WE ALL YOUR TORRENTS WE CAN ALWAYS GET BACK IN AND EVEN SALAD CANT HELP YOU HAHAHAHA

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one of the pm's :

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Hi guys,

we have been hacked and all your userdata is on edonkey including your passwords and email addresses.

The magic tricks, seduction and business website http://salad.tl will help us secure the site so it does not happen again!

Sorry!

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ok the site is back in control now aomkiller hacked us and we will take revenge on them til they are dead these losers. its my fault cos salad yesterday pointed out to me i should change my password but i did not care about the user and site security so i didnt do it.it wont happen again i hope you guys can forgive me that cos of me all your private data leaked to p2p and google...i feel so tired

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not sure what todo :(

I think they deserve it.
too many false open sign up

any AOM sucks anyway. crap staff, crap tracker - 100% crap.

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Originally Posted by DKre8ive1

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Originally Posted by Tokeman

To anyone thinking this was a milicous hack, READ THE EMAIL.
Its a notification offering the admins of the site the opportunity to fix the holes, they aren't giving out the DB or anything...

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These people stole the database I guess that is not considered malicious in your eyes, but it could be used for a bunch of other things like for example spam.

If these hackers really cared they would of found the hole and reported it with out having to steal the database and emails.

I feel sorry for the site but this has happened to so many sites in the past few months that I hope site coders start to really look at there site security before anything else.

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The act itself was both illegal and malicous, but they aren't trying to extort anything, and they aren't releasing the data. They are simply trying to drum up buisness for their 'group/company/whatever', hoping aom would hire them to fix the 'flaws' they found. Its mis-guided, but in their eyes, they were just trying to help. It was a selfish move on their part though to go through with the hack.

Yea it was. Kids I tell you. All these stupid E-Penis tracker wars. For what?:idunno:

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Originally Posted by saulin

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well it seems this was going to happend sooner or later

probably the reasone for that is *fake open signups twice* and some guy(s) probably have been pissed by that lol

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Lol I guess they deserve it. Trying to keek a magic tracker *cough* rare. Well I guess it should be rare. Who the heck really needs a magic tracker?

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+1000 :)

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Originally Posted by saulin

Lol I guess they deserve it. Trying to keek a magic tracker *cough* rare. Well I guess it should be rare. Who the heck really needs a magic tracker?

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obviously you do. You keep ranting about it. Just except the fact that you don't fit the requirements. Move on in life. Theres more to it then Bittorent.;)

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Originally Posted by warid

I think they deserve it.
too many false open sign up

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Nice logic.

Hi all,

News travels fast.... unfortunately. I think this is just the sad result of being successful. Nobody wants their site to be hacked. We have 4 experienced securitie guys on board but if its possible to hack the governement, it sure is possible to hack our site.

We should be thankful to those ****** from SALAD. It enables us to improve our security even more. I wish I could eat them raw... :angry:!

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Originally Posted by Actatoi

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Originally Posted by warid

I think they deserve it.
too many false open sign up

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Nice logic.

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Indeed...

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obviously you do. You keep ranting about it. Just except the fact that you don't fit the requirements. Move on in life. Theres more to it then Bittorent.;)

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Hahahahahaha

Dude I had that crappy tracker a long, long time ago and I never downloaded a file and I let it get disabled by inactivity. Is just a magic tracker lol. That's how good it is.

People like you sure make me laugh. In case you haven't noticed I'm about content not rarity :P. And Crappy trackers like AOM that pretend to be the shit and do stuff like opening fake signups to get more popularity make me laugh even more.

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Originally Posted by saulin

People like you sure make me laugh. In case you haven't noticed I'm about content not rarity :P.

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Thrill me? Why do I make you laugh? This is not a laughing matter I speak about. You should appreciate the fact that people take the free time out of their lives to bring you or me any content at all. I sure do.:P

Because you said I want in. You obviously don't know me plus I have access to the best trackers already. I have been around for over a year with private torrent sites.

I guess there is a little for everyone. I mean people that like gay porn look for gay porn, people that like rock music look for rock music, people that like jazz look for jazz music. I guess some people like magic too but I guess that's not really the point. The point is that a lot of people want it not because they like magic but because they would like to trade it for other trackers.

Yes I do apreciate the fact that some people bring me great content. I have donated to about 4 torrent sites. Underground-Gamer for example. The content is well simply kick ass. Not just any tracker has it and is content that interests me. But since is usually open for signups is not a tracker that people would really care defend like you defended AOM or liek they would defend some rare trackers.

saulin, aom has unique content, and if you were into magic, then you'd appriciate the content they offer. Obviously you had other motives when you 'were a member', not saying you were looking to trade it, but most people want aom because of the unique magic content they provide, and you don't appear to be looking for magic related content. Makes me wonder...
They keep the signups closed to keep the site full of active members who will actually use the tracker, and enjoy it for what it is, not to drive up rarity. If you had been paying any attention over your whole 1 year of experience in private trackers, you'd realise that admins do not care about how rare their sites are, closed signups are done for other reasons, and each tracker that closes has its own reasons for doing so.

Some sites do and I think AOM is one of them actually, look at their actions with the fake open signups lately and then deleting everyone. It kind of looks like they just want attention and they want to make themselves feel as a very private site and of course that makes people want to get it more so they can trade it.

Now sites like F*** or UK-T and FTN just want to keep it simple and they would never open signups. They don't care about popularity. At least F*** and UK-T don't. Their contents may suck but they want to be as private as possible.

Then there are the best trackers which are either open for signups and/or are easy to signup or get an invite for. They really don't care about how private or rare they are and they probably are getting profits by donations so they keep a good user database or make sure to keep invites open.

A small tracker does not mean it is the best. A rare tracker is not the best because it is hard to get. In fact a tracker that lacks users ends up with poor content and slow speeds. But I do believe that in order to gain popularity some trackers will go as far as closing signups, removing invites for long periods of time and getting rid of users. People want what they can't have. Then when they need more users to date they open registrations or open signups through invites.

You know the most wanted trackers are the harder ones to get. Not the ones that have the best content or speed or pre times.

I gave away a lot of trackes I didn't use and I let many get disabled by inactivity. I know I have the best ones now so I don't think there is anything I need at the moment, plus I'm more into newsgroups right now. AOM was one of the ones that never got my attention. I remember back then they opened registrations and I signed up and it was well just weird crap that didn't interest me. I don't think I ever downloaded a file so it's one of the ones I just let died.

One more thing. For small trackers people like to use the word community since the content sucks usually and to try to give it a reason so that it can keep some value when trading. Why do I say that? Because I have been watching this closely for a while and there is people that have every tracker except the level 9-10 and they start a story about how they would love to be part of such great community and how they always wanted to be a part of it. Then they might get in and start trading.

wtf is with all this magic stuff

I came here last week to appologize for the inconvience and I told everybody here that they could contact me if they feel that they are potential good members for AOM, being experienced magicians. Guess how many of the 500 members that signed up contacted me? 6. Doesnt that say enough? The rest of the almost 500 members must have been there to trade their membership later on.

Tell me what our secondairy gain would be if we really have fake openings? We share high quality stuff at our site and most of that uploaded stuff was bought by our members. We are not looking for new members. At the moment we have 780 members and 60% of them visit every day. We select our members with great care as we know the material that is shared is very valueble, in every way. Memberships are free so there is no financial advantage for us. With every member we set up, we take a risk of precious secrets leaking on internet. Do you really think that we are waiting for 500 new and potential non-magic members? We have always preferred to be a small but high quality community. The reason why there is nobody that wants to trade invites is that its forbidden to do so. If a member recommends a friend who is invited in, he will lose his membership if this new "so called friend" is not doing good. So tell me... what does it take to make you see other TRUTH?

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Originally Posted by saulin

Some sites do and I think AOM is one of them actually, look at their actions with the fake open signups lately and then deleting everyone. It kind of looks like they just want attention and they want to make themselves feel as a very private site and of course that makes people want to get it more so they can trade it.

Now sites like F*** or UK-T and FTN just want to keep it simple and they would never open signups. They don't care about popularity. At least F*** and UK-T don't. Their contents may suck but they want to be as private as possible.

Then there are the best trackers which are either open for signups and/or are easy to signup or get an invite for. They really don't care about how private or rare they are and they probably are getting profits by donations so they keep a good user database or make sure to keep invites open.

A small tracker does not mean it is the best. A rare tracker is not the best because it is hard to get. In fact a tracker that lacks users ends up with poor content and slow speeds. But I do believe that in order to gain popularity some trackers will go as far as closing signups, removing invites for long periods of time and getting rid of users. People want what they can't have. Then when they need more users to date they open registrations or open signups through invites.

You know the most wanted trackers are the harder ones to get. Not the ones that have the best content or speed or pre times.

I gave away a lot of trackes I didn't use and I let many get disabled by inactivity. I know I have the best ones now so I don't think there is anything I need at the moment, plus I'm more into newsgroups right now. AOM was one of the ones that never got my attention. I remember back then they opened registrations and I signed up and it was well just weird crap that didn't interest me. I don't think I ever downloaded a file so it's one of the ones I just let died.

One more thing. For small trackers people like to use the word community since the content sucks usually and to try to give it a reason so that it can keep some value when trading. Why do I say that? Because I have been watching this closely for a while and there is people that have every tracker except the level 9-10 and they start a story about how they would love to be part of such great community and how they always wanted to be a part of it. Then they might get in and start trading.

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Well is nice to hear from someone that runs the tracker I assume?

Anyways that's a nice explanation. I wasn't aware that you came here and asked for anyone that is a magician and is interested in joining to contact you. But I was referring to 2 or 3 times that the site had opened signups and then all accounts were deleted. That seemed like just a way to gain attention.

And I was right. So about 1% actually felt some ineterest in joining after signing up. Trackers like AOM are not for everyone and is obvious that most people interested in joining well just want to trade the account later. Is the same for all rare trackers. As for trying to keep it a secret place. Maybe requesting to take the tracker off the rarity list would be a good start. That's what the admin at Tophos did and you don't see so much talk about this tracker or people wanting to trade for it.

See when people here. AOM is open for signups, they rush to get an account. Once the accounts get deleted, they start new trading posts and they want it for is rarity value not because they need it or want to be a part of it.

I think the best way to keep a tracker private is by no advertising obviously and banning members who invite bad users to cut the tree from the root. Well I hope some people now realize that kind of tracker this is and that is not meant for just anyone. I never liked it because I'm not into magic and I signed up when it had opened signups a long time ago. Before it even was in this trackers list hosted at FST.

Thanks for the explanation. It seemed to me like the open signups were intentionally made :)

Well I guess I should be thanking AOM for deleting my account last week.