Other’s pics not coming up

[Andrrr]

I’ve been coming across this on multiple channels. I use an iPad and iPhone.

[Red Man]

I’m having the same problem, I was just about to make a post about it! Also using iPhone. It just updated to the latest iOS two days ago, but I had no issues seeing pics yesterday after it updated. If I click on an empty pic box I get a message saying “invalid file specified”.

[Henrik]

Yup, same here. Don’t know what has changed?

[raywjohnson]

Thanks for the screen shot. Always good. But please remember to provide a link as well. I have to try to read the post and then search for it. I link would make things much easier.

And.. something bad has happened, all attachments are missing. I am investigating now.

[Troutman]

Ray investigates !!!!

[ComfortablyNumb]

Just tonight I'm getting broken links to pictures, but others have commented on them, so obviously they have seen them. Or they are really, really trying to bake my noodle.

[ComfortablyNumb]

I might add, I had seen one picture in a thread earlier, now it is a broken link.

[58limited]

raywjohnson I'm having the same problem on the SUWYC thread. I use Dell with Windows 10 and Firefox. Most pics on SUWYC are not showing but the last two posts by treesmacker and troymeister are fine.

Edit: Its happening on other threads too affecting most pics, but not all.

https://pitmaster.amazingribs.com/fo...e19#post895021

Screenshot:

[raywjohnson]

Greetings All,

I am aware of the missing images issue.

It was caused by a hacker who could not complete his hack attempt.

In frustration s/he apparently tried to delete the entire server.

The attachments folder was (basically) the only files effected.

Unfortunately there is no recovery of these files.

I did not discover the hack soon enough to prevent the backup/rsync system from also deleting the backup files.

I did find a backup of the attachments from April 20, 2020. I restored that. But attachments from then to Aug 11, 2020 are lost.

--RayJ

[Dan Deter]

Hackers suck. Thanks for your efforts!

[jfmorris]

Ouch!

I would setup a cron job to backup the site nightly... that is what I do on several production systems - they backup nightly to a remote Linux server via timestamped tar.gz files, then scp to my SSH account on a backup system.

[fzxdoc]

How frustrating, for you and for us, raywjohnson . Thanks for all you do. Hackers are such a menace.

Question: when/if we go back to edit our posts with photos, they should show up correctly, right?

Kathryn

[Dewesq55]

That's not working for me at the moment, fzxdoc

[fzxdoc]

Uh oh, Dewesq55 .

K.

[smokin fool]

Not getting pics either.
Give me the hackers fingers and a nice heavy sledge hammer

[Dewesq55]

raywjohnson - When I just tried to reload one of my pics from yesterday that had been lost in the hack attack, they won't insert into the post.

[jfmorris]

raywjohnson I just tried to upload photos in a post, and got an error that the server folder for attachments was missing or unwritable.

[BFlynn]

I have stopped getting the error that the server folder doesn't exist, and now just get broken links like this one.
It is the same if I try to upload via website or mobile phone.

[RichieB]

Same as BFlynn on Samsung Tab 3 and S7 Edge.

[Huskee]

Thanks for everyone's patience. We and RayJ are aware of this issue, as you'll read in posts after this one RayJ has most restored.

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