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Sonique still shows up once in a blue moon, but yeah, she's mostly decided it's time to move on. She no longer has any ownership or administrative role.

John Roberts (or JonBob as I like to call him) is technically still FUS's official second-in-command, but nowadays he pretty much just sits around and drinks beer. So I'm currently chief's de-facto second-in-command when it comes to server administration, which lately seems to mostly involve cleaning up after hackers. I don't take much part in running FUS aside from the tech side of things, though.

I'm not the biggest fan of WP myself. Switching to something else would be so painful, though...

Who says he isn't?

Well, the first time we got hacked, it was probably through an out-of-date, vulnerable Wordpress installation. The second time, it was probably through a backdoor I failed to clean up after the first time. I did a poor job of it and got what I deserved; it's too bad all the other FUSers had to suffer along with me. It's also possible they figured out one of the Wordpress passwords after the first hacking and got in that way, so this time around I also forced a change of all Wordpress passwords.

I think we were doing a daily backup and a weekly one. For this, though, I didn't use a backup from before the hack. Instead, I reinstalled Wordpress for the main site and for Sea3on, and I reinstalled Invision (which took rather longer than I hoped). For everything else I just transferred the files as-is to the new server, but I either deleted all .php files or I made sure all the .php files were clean. There were very few .php files I needed to upload this way, so checking them was no big deal and I am 100% confident I didn't upload any compromised ones.