Quote Originally Posted by WILL View Post
I don't think you should worry about your passwords. I couldn't retrieve them if I wanted to so I'd assume you are still safe there.
Actually, you can, and so can anyone else who gets ahold of your database. While it is true that the passwords cannot be reversed, they can be brute-forced, the only difficulty being how slow the hashing process is. Plus, having emails harvested for spam is not much better. Fortunately, I have a solution for that already, but not everyone does.

The main reason I brought it up is that it is generally a good idea to disclose the possibility/probability of a data breach occurring, because it lets your users be proactive in protecting themselves. If you tell me that, after your (hopefully expert) forensic analysis, the probability is nil or very low, then I won't worry about it. But if you think you found material evidence that it did occur, it is always the best policy to let your users know ASAP. It isn't bad on you to do so, even if it really didn't happen. But, if it did, and you don't tell us, that isn't too cool.

I know with the current issues plaguing the PSN where your mind is thinking, but it's not that WE were haked
No, it's just the way I think, since one of the hats I wear is an IT Security Analyst.

I'd like to tell everyone what exactly was going on, but truth be told I don't even know. Dom (savage) has asked the hosting company what is going on and they seem to want to blame some kind of plug-in we didn't even have. I'm not too happy with the hosting company and they way they've been handling this incident and others in the past to tell you the honest truth and I'm considering a move once I financially take it over myself. I've had nothing but good experiences from DoDaddy and I host Pascal Gamer and Red Ant Games both with them so I'd be willing to try them on for PGD in the future providing I can get the domain redirected properly without a bucket-load of headaches.
I'm sorry to hear that. Usually, small hosting providers provide much better service than the larger ones (of course, this coming from a small hosting provider ). Unfortunately, I've had the opposite experience with customers on GoDaddy, and am currently in the process of getting another site off of them onto a smaller, more capable provider. GoDaddy's support is decent, but their hosting solutions are subpar. I would expect that the performance of your site to suffer significantly if you do switch to them (which is the problem I am dealing with right now).

GoDaddy also has unlimited bandwidth as a part of it's core hosting features so this would take care of that issue as well.
What issue are you referring to? The slowdown? I don't think that will make any difference. "Unlimited bandwidth" just means that they won't bill you if you go into many terabytes of usage, not that said usage won't take your site down handily. Most providers won't charge you for bandwidth from DDoS attacks and such, as long as you didn't cause it, so I don't think that would be an issue.

Anyway, I am not intending to be critical of you here; I'm just being a concerned (and informed) user and, ultimately, just trying to help.