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Has the Forum been hacked?

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Yesterday and this morning I have been getting 'file not found' messages. Once just trying to access the site (certificate out of date); today when I tried to log in (but still I appear to have been logged in) it happened several times.
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Re: Has the Forum been hacked?

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Mike Olds wrote:Yesterday
I can confirm that yesterday (2019-06-17) around 07:00 o'clock (UTC) the SSL certificate for textpad.com was expired. Now we have a new one, valid from 2019-06-17 to 2019-09-16 (smells like the typical Let's Encrypt life span, but I don't see it in the certificate itself).

Mike Olds wrote:'file not found' messages
Cannot confirm: yesterday and today I never got a HTTP status 404. Are you sure? Most people nowaday easily mix up unexpected errors just as "file not found" when in fact that phrase was never written anywhere.

Mike Olds wrote:(certificate out of date)
See above - an expired SSL certificate is not a "file not found", and you're still able to ignore it.

Mike Olds wrote:(but still I appear to have been logged in) it happened several times
The board software and cookies saved with your internet browser are unrelated to all issues mentioned, hence the auto-login works as expected.
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Hola amigo,

Here is exactly what I did, which I just repeated to check:

Reach TP Index site (Yesterday this gave me the "Page Not Found" error message, but today it went to the site without complaint.

Click Log in
Log in
get: "Page not Found" (Not numbered 404, and not titled "File not Found"
hit 'back'/get log in dialogue/'back'
to Forum Index (where, of course it shows I am not logged in)
Refresh or go to a thread where I am logged in

PS: If on the first 'Page not Found" page I click the contact admin button I also get the 'Page not Found' message

While I am at it I might as well mention that I am not receiving notification when someone replies to a thread on which I have posted or to threads I have started.
Thank you, and
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Obo
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forum seems to have moved from https://forums.textpad.com/ to https://textpad.com/forums/

But in some places the old host name is still active (log in/log out), thus
https://forums.textpad.com/forums/ is called, which does not exist.

Manually removing the forums. from that url gives the correct page ...
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MudGuard wrote:forum seems to have moved from https://forums.textpad.com/ to https://textpad.com/forums/
MudGuard, I think you’ll find https://forums.textpad.com/ is the correct address. The old address was http://forums.textpad.com/ (without the https).
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If you click the link "Forums" in the orange bar on https://textpad.com, you get to https://textpad.com/forums/index.php

(on https://www.textpad.com, you get to https://www.textpad.com/forums/index.php )
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