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#247120 12/06/2011 2:18 AM
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I have evidence that the "Admin" account was breached. What are the necessary immediate steps I should take? For now, all I've done is closed the board.

  1. Can I ban the account "Admin" (note: my normal account is an Administrator)
  2. Can I revoke Administrator stats on the "Admin" account?
  3. Can I force a logout on the "Admin" account?


Any quick help would be much appreciated. I'm feeling rather exposed right now blush

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1. revoke admin rights
2. change all other admin account psws
3. have you applied the security patches?

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1. I actually "banned" the admin account - is it preferred I just revoke Admin rights on the account? Does something break if it's banned?
2. Done.
3. Yes (although I wish I had patched earlier).

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i'd revoke admin rights as well, since it isn't an admin account as used on your forum..

only have admins that are *REAL* admins and as few as possible wink

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Done and done!

Thanks for the quick response.

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BTW, can I force an account to logout on their next visit to the site?

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change the cookie prefix does this, but it also forces EVERYONE to relogin

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