warez forums

[Ayumi]

@netstavi @hcedu

Don't waste your time with this. It's the betabbs.org forum.

Go here, close the login screen and you can see the warning message screen:
https://www.betabbs.org/


Some info from that warning message includes:
"Due the recent fiasco and information we get and have, as you may notice before about the leakage, which done by low level person"
and
"Third, please bear with us during this time for the better of our forum. Believe it or not, we won't be taken down easily by some poor child. We were a small community, but we have our own pride and our loyal members who dedicated their time and share the best with all of us. The damage has been done, but we will recover, because the past was behind, we look in the future."

The message says that they migrated servers also last year.

The forum and its members were attacked, all the private content leaked and posted on other forums. Again...The warning message says that.
All the leaked useful content from that place is available on most other forums from a very long time. See the sidebar in that warning message.

Now they are trying to get in new members, I hear.

I have nothing against them. I'm just trying to warn you guys to be careful.

[tonyweb]

Let me add my two cents, please, cause I have an account there.

Originally Posted by Ayumi

The forum and its members were attacked, [...] All the leaked useful content from that place is available on most other forums

hmmm, more or less.
Some content was leaked by an account who was already a member.

Originally Posted by Ayumi

all the private content leaked and posted on other forums.

Only a part of the private content was leaked. You may reply that the leaker chose the "important" stuff. Oh well, that's a personal opinion.

I'm just trying to warn you guys to be careful.

Why? Leaker/s was/were found and board secured.
And new content is being posted and shared.

Originally Posted by Ayumi

Now they are trying to get in new members, I hear.

Valuable and trusted members are welcome everywhere

Peace,
Tony

[Ayumi]

Originally Posted by tonyweb

Let me add my two cents, please, cause I have an account there.

I also (still) have an account there. The so-called "advanced member" account". It is pretty useless though since content posted there is also posted in at least 3 other forums. Whatever is not posted is leaked within 2 days.

Originally Posted by tonyweb

hmmm, more or less.
Some content was leaked by an account who was already a member.

No... The forum was hacked and the content was mirrored to another site called betabbs.vip
(That can be seen in that "warning notice page" sidebar on the left side at:

https://sos.betabbs.org

Originally Posted by tonyweb

Only a part of the private content was leaked. You may reply that the leaker chose the "important" stuff. Oh well, that's a personal opinion.

Nearly all the "useful" private content was mirrored and left on the mirror betabbs.vip site for over a year.
The mirror site was kept updated with new content for over 2 years.
Then when the private section of betabbs started going dead, the mirror site was left to expire.

Originally Posted by tonyweb

Why? Leaker/s was/were found and board secured.
And new content is being posted and shared.

There is another new live mirror from the past year though with content from the private section of betabbs. I do not think it's appropriate to mention that site here?
But most of the veteran users already know about it anyway.

The "new" content is nothing that is not also posted at common warez forums.
As already mentioned, there is also the new mirror...
So betabbs.org is still definitely not secured.

@tonyweb Since you've made the post, it should be okay for me to say it now:
That attack at betabbs.org was done because tonyweb was a member at that forum.
So because of him, the whole forum was targeted and a lot of inoocent members including myself were attacked.
So tonyweb has an implied interest in trying to speak good of betabbs.
I is not my place to say the exact reasons behind the attack on the forum but I am sure that tonyweb is well aware that he was the main target.

Everyone lost confidence in that forum's ability to maintain security of its members after that attack.

I am a neutral person. But I was also doxxed completely and had a lot of trouble in real life due to that.