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I habitually record my dragon prints, at least daily, so that’s where my 2:36PM EDT estimate came from (& the fact I had to hit refresh after thundercloud’s post to see the issue)… maybe it took time to sweep through the databases? (IIRC, there’s multiple databases.)

manta is working on fixing the user names as we speak...

I’m aware of that, as is our coder. i do believe it was a failed exploit, but, not sure yet. Still digging into this.

i’m creating a review thread here so i can see and reply to reviews better. http://cartoon.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600096331

Great you have back up you can use to fix the problem. As a fellow systemdeveloper...unless some of crew know they made the wrong SQL and are responsible for the problem I suggest this might be a good time to verify that you have a full set of backups that is independent from normal backups and preferably off line. If somebody tried to hack AFF, and caused the problem to happen through an exploit, there might we worse data loss that could happen. Additionally, no matter if this really was an failed attack I would suggest that using a supported version of PHP is really important. I don’t know what PHP version is used here, but many sites uses outdated PHP with many security holes. Checking OWASP Cheat sheet for PHP is also a really good idea because there are lots of things in PHP that available by default but not always needed. Getting rid things that are not needed increases the security a lot.

Yes, i can restore pen names from a back up. However, I am working a series of splits, so don’t have a whole lot of time at the moment.

Can confirm that this fix has worked for me as well even after a log out and dumping my browser history.

The author profiles are in one database. It’s the archival subdomains that are split into multiple databases.

Hi, all. It started happening around or shortly before 11:45 EDT today. When I caught it, some pen names were still right, while others had the ‘123123” value instead. Or, it happened earlier, and there were just that many people who had already ‘fixed’ their accounts. But it didn’t look like that. And, @BronxWench, I’ll leave it up to the people who it’s actually up to, to diagnose and fix it. I know that whoever is suppose to actually do stuff like that, that it isn’t me. Thanks again, all.