Unknown Assailants Calling for Tweaker’s Resignation
5PM Update: It appears that Retro administrators have regained permanent control of their servers. A message on Sonic Retro states that the site will be restored via backups within a few hours. The message acknowledges that “script kiddie hackers,” in their words, managed to gain control of Retro. Normal operations are expected to resume tonight.
Our original story follows below.
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Sonic Retro forum administrator Tweaker confirmed to TSSZ News a few minutes ago that the whole of Sonic Retro–the top resource for Sonic community research and one of the top Sonic sites in the world–is the victim of malicious hacking.
The damage is widespread, impacting both website, forum, and Sonic Retro’s well maintained Wiki page. Backups of all of these components exist.
Despite multiple attempts to return matters to normal, the attacker, whose identity is not yet known, has, according to unconfirmed accounts, infiltrated Sonic Retro’s FTP account and credentials, and has gained control of it.
Such power has not been wasted on the assailant or assailants, who posted this message on the front page of Sonic Retro not too long ago, calling for Tweaker to step down from his administrative duties on the website:
Currently we’ve been fighting with the Sonic Retro guys. It is a dying site which wants to ruin our attempt (sic) I’m sorry but the Sonic community has changed, and while I think SonicTweaker did great things with Megamix, this is his time to step down.
Indeed, control is shifting back and forth between Retro heads and the hackers, as this message just replaced the above notice just a few moments ago:
It pains us, the owners of Sonic Retro, to inform you that a group of immature, ignorant shits think they can stand up to us. We have a backup of everything that will be restored soon, so in the mean time, enjoy the fireworks while these pathetic morons try to overthrow us.
Sonic Retro administrators are quickly working to fix the problem, as bluntly noted above, and we will update as developments warrant.
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Oh, and Overlord better save the current front page.
For your information, I’ve saved the front page. Be happy!
YES. YES. YEEEEEEEES
KARMA IS A BITCH, ISN’T IT TWEAKER AND SCARREDSUN? DOWN TO YOUR CORRUPT ADMINISTRATION!
Now I just need to gain access to the IRC again.
I don’t even know why snkenjoi banned me anyway. He banned someone, was like “asdfghg” and then unbanned that person, I laughed, and I was banned.
Saying LOL isn’t grounds for a ban in the IRC.
aledTH: Thanks. We need enough proof that this happened so we can laugh at Shibunoa/send it to Vodafone/get his internet cut off.
Okay, as I’ve found out, this wasn’t drx’s fault. My bad.
Still pissed though.
Oh, and hi Hedgie. We won’t be going anywhere.
Sorry about all the bad news guys. Good luck to repairing things 100%.
anomynous = hacker, i bet. either hacker or angry banned member. this is nuts
wheres the story gone :E|
Well, quite frankly I’m disappointed that some retarded person would go as fucking low as trying to overthrow the admins. Tweaker is an excellent admin IMO. Yeah sure he can be a bit finicky at times and overreact on some things but that’s one of the awesome qualities about him and one of the reasons I used to look up to him (other than the fact that I’m just weird.)
Any attack on Tweaker is an automatic attack on me and I don’t like it. I can’t wait to hear the measures taken on this oaf who dares to violate the sanctity of Sonic Retro. I’m going to be laughing Maniacly. (Or however you spell it.) Oh and anonymous preson: Shut up.
I can’t understand why some idiot has gone to all this trouble just to take down Tweaker. Start a petition, fair enough but to hack a website is a bit much. After the work he’s done for the sonic fan scene I personally think he deserves his admin status. And besides I can’t see why this hacker guy thinks Tweaker is as corrupt as he says he is. I havn’t a member of the sonic fan scene for very long and Tweaker has been nothing but helpful and fair to me.
I think that was it Rolo. He wanted to be a admin so he took the site over so HE could administrate it
. @Person who got banned for saying LOL. I managed to get back on the chat after being banned (apparently saying once that Retro has gone to Hell because of Simon leaving is trolling >_>). Anyway: I don’t know how I got back in but I did… Keep trying you will get back in 
But: I doesen’t matter for all traces of retro are down right now… Just wait a few weeks for Tweaker and DRX (The ‘asshole’ who has contributed so much to the community) to get it back up. I think its clear by now that my account won’t get approved but as a above poster said: That’s what proxys are for.