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Someone from my university took down my website (lemmy.world)
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So I have a small web app I made. I didn't really advertise much because there's a lot of things I wanna fix in it and I don't have the time. But I did tell a few classmates about it.

Last few days I noticed it had been running slowly. Until one day it just stopped working. I checked the server logs and there was a background worker trying and failing to insert some data into the db on loop because of a bug I didn't notice. The data it was trying to insert was spam so I knew this was an intentional thing. I took the server down and in the process accidentally deleted all the logs. Oops.

So I go and check the database and the user who inserted the spam data used their actual email. I google it, find their GitHub, their twitter, and their fiverr which has their actual name and picture. I search their name in my university system and find them. It's someone I don't know. Someone who heard from a classmate I told about it.

Fixed the bug now, banned the account, removed the spam. I guess you could say they did me a favor catching the bug but they could've just told me about it lol.

The only question left is: should I contact them? Send them a subtle 'I know what you did" message on the uni portal?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Might be able to recover the logs with testdisk. The email and other info might be enough. If you do get your logs back might impress the CS Prof. Shows willingness to figure shit out when things go wrong.

To me, what they did shows intent to commit a crime if not the crime itself. Possibly legal offences likely wont be taken lightly.

If your gonna hack shit it better be your own in a lab or have consent from the party involved