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==Abuses against the community==

On 4 May 2011 Smashboards had its index page replaced by an automated script that exploited vBulletin software. A replacement page with a looping video and an announcement that the site had been hacked was the only consequence.{{ref|vBExploit}}

===Widespread DDoS attack in 2013===

On 15 August All is Brawl came under a sustained [[Wikipedia:Denial-of-service_attack|distributed denial-of-service attack]] (DDoS attack). Other sections from the "All is" network were affected as well. The following day, Smashboards suffered an intrusive attack that led to a reset that lost the forum roughly 10 hours of data. On 25 August Smashboards went down, initially reporting that it was experiencing server issues{{ref|DDoS1}} and later confirmed that the site was also under a sustained DDoS attack{{ref|DDoS2}}. It is unknown if the Smashboards intrusion on 15 August is related to its DDoS attack on 25 August. On 27 August the [[Project M]] website became the third site to go down as a result of a DDoS attack.

All three sites remained mostly unresponsive until 28 August when Smashboards briefly went back up before trying the CloudFlare anti-DDoS service. [[AlphaZealot]] reported that owners from each site were working together to find a solution.{{ref|DDoS3}} Project M webmaster [[Warchamp7]] later told video game blog site Kotaku that "the only viable solution to the problem at this moment is expensive and not something we can easily pursue," but added there were plans to mitigate the attacks if they continued{{ref|DDoS4}}.

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 ==Abuses against the community==
 On 4 May 2011 Smashboards had its index page replaced by an automated script that exploited vBulletin software. A replacement page with a looping video and an announcement that the site had been hacked was the only consequence.{{ref|vBExploit}}
+===Widespread DDoS attack in 2013===
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+On 15 August All is Brawl came under a sustained [[Wikipedia:Denial-of-service_attack|distributed denial-of-service attack]] (DDoS attack). Other sections from the "All is" network were affected as well. The following day, Smashboards suffered an intrusive attack that led to a reset that lost the forum roughly 10 hours of data. On 25 August Smashboards went down, initially reporting that it was experiencing server issues{{ref|DDoS1}} and later confirmed that the site was also under a sustained DDoS attack{{ref|DDoS2}}. It is unknown if the Smashboards intrusion on 15 August is related to its DDoS attack on 25 August. On 27 August the [[Project M]] website became the third site to go down as a result of a DDoS attack.
+All three sites remained mostly unresponsive until 28 August when Smashboards briefly went back up before trying the CloudFlare anti-DDoS service. [[AlphaZealot]] reported that owners from each site were working together to find a solution.{{ref|DDoS3}} Project M webmaster [[Warchamp7]] later told video game blog site Kotaku that "the only viable solution to the problem at this moment is expensive and not something we can easily pursue," but added there were plans to mitigate the attacks if they continued{{ref|DDoS4}}.
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