Yep. Ika was hacked. She's back now. We're still sorting things out
The hacker hacked Ika's system. I don't know that they were targeting TSP in particular. They may just have been trying to mess with Ika.
I'm doing okay. I've got my system back under my control, and I've closed the hole I think they used to get into it. (I don't know how they got into my network though.) The emotional damage is another story, but I'm slowly recovering from that.
The only thing that's ever happened before was an issue between two then-members.
Yikes. How did they manage to get in, and do you have any idea who you think it might be? I'd assume since you said you have a Twitch account and do some streams, it probably comes from someone on that end since that's a point of public exposure? Since money was involved, I presume you've taken this to law enforcement for investigation (they may require forensics into the network), to go after the perpetrators (unless you know the perpetrators to be foreign-based, I suppose.)
I probably should be a bit angry with you for that comment, but it's too funny for that!
Like I said, I don't really know how beyond breaking into something I already had put in place for myself.
No. And I won't. I've only had bad experiences with law enforcement around where I live. And I certainly can't afford them confiscating my computer as “evidence”!
This isn't really our place to be asking questions or making suggestions as to what to do about all of what happened recently with the Spawn Point discord and to Ika herself. It sucks that it happened and screw whoever did it, but I don't think Ika really appreciates us talking about a personal matter here relating to her. We don't know all of the facts here. No one does.
Hmm, and without knowing even probable sources of where the attack originated from, it makes it all that much harder to predict/defend a second attack. What you've described sounds primarily like a targeted attack more than a random target of opportunity attack. And now that I think about it attacking discord specifically is an odd choice for an opportunistic attacker. It doesn't narrow the field TOO much but it seems likely you could eliminate "random foreign attacker" or even "some random university person" and narrow to people who know you and know your involvement in video games (or know you only from video games such as Discord or Twitch.) Probably not too helpful, but it's something to keep in mind.
Understandable. Generally local police are near useless with electronic crimes anyway, and rarely does it get escalated to federal agencies for individual cases, but I figured I'd throw that out there since money was involved it was an option (and if it involved a bank at all they might escalate it), but yeah, computer confiscation is always a possibility at least for them to keep it long enough to run forensics on it.
Maybe, maybe not, but I'd rather be accused of trying to help than not. I deal with secure corporate environments (and the risks therein), so it's kind of instinct to review the situation :) While there's not as many options open to individuals as to businesses (and rarely is it quite as damaging unless it goes into id theft which is generally the same net result as a corporate breach of consumer information), it never hurts to offer ideas that won't be used rather than not offer ideas that would have been helpful. It's better than figuring out 10 years from now "oh if only I'd thought of that!"
