I'm sorry. Website was hacked. It's my fault.
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Good luck to hackers to understand my EAs which are such mess lol. Seriously, nothing ever improve without mistakes, feel like a fresh start to me. Thanks for honesty. Imports working fine on my side. Cheers to all!
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@ontradingx I don't think the administrator can be blamed for not protecting their "treasures" on their own.
In my case, each EA that I have programmed for a third person is safely stored in a folder with the four files (mq4, ex4, mq5, ex5), just like the projects that are promising.
For me, this has supposed a cleanup of failed or unprofitable experiments, as well as a wake-up call to think about downloading AND DELETING each time to avoid these leaks.
The administrator has his part to blame, but we have ours.
And for its part, it has allowed totally free access to the platform and implemented daily BackUps to avoid this loss again.
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@luckybest I can access my builder, no problem. I was able to restore the missing ea's by creating a new project then importing the mq4/5 source file. Worked perfectly if you compiled the code previously.
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@noctis I would doubt the hackers are interested in anyone's code, but they are interested in receiving bitcoin for the ransomware. It is a sad world we live in.
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my database loss
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@noctis said in I'm sorry. Website was hacked. It's my fault.:
Good luck to hackers to understand my EAs which are such mess lol. Seriously, nothing ever improve without mistakes, feel like a fresh start to me. Thanks for honesty. Imports working fine on my side. Cheers to all!
By the way, the projects in the database are not MQL4 or MQL5 code, but JSON objects saying that there is this block at this position, another block on another position, connection between this and this block and so on... And this JSON object is kinda useless without the EA builder. To turn any of these objects to MQL4 or MQL5 code, you (I mean the hacker) needs to import those projects in the EA builder one by one and generate them, while also having all the used indicators (if any). Also, the projects are so many... good luck with choosing which one is possibly profitable and deserves to be imported in the EA builder and tested.
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@fxdreema Thanks that's good to know. Those JSON stuffs litteraly saved me years of programming.
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Its, ok and I like your honesty and prompt reply. thank you.
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@fxdreema my old account(new member abount 3 months) has gone, right.
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I've said it so many times and got virtually whipped by other users, that the fact is FXDreema are too lazy....I shouldn't have to rely on other users for help 99% of the time this is because FXDreema are too lazy to put out proper materials for us to learn easier....they take our money and leave us out to dry, that's just my opinion. I stopped subscribing for three months out of protest, and when I do come back the server is dead slow (in fact most of the time it's slow) and the staff at FXDreema are too F*CKING LAZY to back-up our files, I've had years of work on their database and FXDreema could not protect our work, regardless if I have backed-up my work, that's not the point, they are the ones who should be backing up our data, it's not that difficult, I back-up my Wordpress website files by clicking a button, it's that simple...but as I said, FXDREEMA are just too lazy.
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@worapongk1 said in I'm sorry. Website was hacked. It's my fault.:
@fxdreema my old account(new member abount 3 months) has gone, right.
Yes. I don't have any accounts registered in the past 6 months. These are more than 9400 profiles (who knows how many spam profiles in them).
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@fxdreema said in I'm sorry. Website was hacked. It's my fault.:
@noctis said in I'm sorry. Website was hacked. It's my fault.:
Good luck to hackers to understand my EAs which are such mess lol. Seriously, nothing ever improve without mistakes, feel like a fresh start to me. Thanks for honesty. Imports working fine on my side. Cheers to all!
By the way, the projects in the database are not MQL4 or MQL5 code, but JSON objects saying that there is this block at this position, another block on another position, connection between this and this block and so on... And this JSON object is kinda useless without the EA builder. To turn any of these objects to MQL4 or MQL5 code, you (I mean the hacker) needs to import those projects in the EA builder one by one and generate them, while also having all the used indicators (if any). Also, the projects are so many... good luck with choosing which one is possibly profitable and deserves to be imported in the EA builder and tested.
I would suspect that 98% of the EAs generated are not winners. I speak from experience in that I built likely >1,000 which fell flat on their face
So good luck to the hackers! -
Errors found when editing title of blocks and then moving them to a neater location. Links dissapearing then reappearing.
Quite a big issue for me trying to slot in new blocksProblem solved moving to Edge fom Chrome
Thanks
EBd
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@jacksonuk Well, I won't disagree. My learning materials are not very good. Which on the other hand made it possible for many people to create their courses and sell them for much bigger prices than what fxdreema costs. I don't know what is the size of that market (because it seems that it is a whole market by itself), it could be even bigger than the market of fxdreema alone.
We can talk about the weak points of fxdreema, but also, is it as expensive as something enterprice would be? The answer depends on each person and the place he lives in, but also the Forex world itself, where $25 is probably what would someone pay in broker fees after opening few trades in less than a day. Also, I never forced anyone to pay for it, I never even advertised it (another weak part I guess).
@line said:
I would suspect that 98% of the EAs generated are not winners. I speak from experience in that I built likely >1,000 which fell flat on their face
So good luck to the hackers!I've seen many people's projects and I think you are not far from the truth
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@fxdreema said in I'm sorry. Website was hacked. It's my fault.:
The worst thing happened. Big parts of the database are lost after someone gained access to the database and deleted it. Unfortunately I don't have a recent backup, especially the projects and the payments history. I restored some very old projects and the forum as it was 6 months ago. User profiles registered after that point are gone, this is almost 9500 profiles (including some spambots). I had a backup of the forum from 6 months ago, but since then all user profiles are gone.
How it happened? Few days ago I was installing some script and I wanted to open a port of it so I can use it remotely, but I accidentally left all ports opened. The database did not have a password, so basically it was opened to the world.
I'm really sorry for what happened, it was all because of my negligence. Now there is a damage I can't undo.
Anyone who has downloaded .mq4 ot .mq5 files of his project can import them and work on them again.
Because the recent users and payments history are gone, it will be hard for me to restore the payments. For now I will leave it free for all, until I restore the payments. Sometimes PayPal/Stripe emails match the user's email here in the website and I may try to restore some of these payments. But if you have paid and I don't know who you are, better send me the transaction number of the payment in email or here as a personal message. I will give extra time to everyone. I still don't know how much, but in this topic we can discuss that. Or, you can ask me for a refund. Keep in mind that all of this will take time.
for the future it would be nice to have a function that allows USERS to download all projects as backup file without having to download all projects one per one so each user is able to have a backup of all projects his own without having to work through all projects...
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OMG! yes i just realised my file was only left 2019, thats a good 3 years of work down the drain... :(this is painful.... plus i trusted the database and did not back up.............
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@normy Did you have the compiled code (download source file) available?
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For me, i loss 3 years back data of overall 7 years working with your best support.
However, it is not your fault. Hackers are always hacking.
Cheering up. You can do it.
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@normy said in I'm sorry. Website was hacked. It's my fault.:
plus i trusted the database and did not back up.............
Well, I can fully relate to that
By the way it's not that I never tried to back it up. When it was still small, I had a script that dumped the database at 5:00 every day. Then when it was bigger, this was not a good idea anymore.
I tried to jsut copy-paste the database files before, because this sounds the most logical of all, but when I do that while the database is working, I just get some broken files that I can't run after that.
Then I tried to replicate it, I wanted to be able to have it on more than one place. I was thinking this is easy - you have a remote computer somewhere that is just downloading what's new. But this process turned out to be a nightmare. First, this replication process was much much slower than I expected. Not only that, but if something wrong happens while this process is working, I had to start it all over again. Every time it took hours and hours, and this was also a little bit heavy for the server.
I don't know exactly why I overlooked the backup option of the hosting provider. I think at some point I was assuming that it will use the SDD space. Or that it would also be some heavy process that would slow things down. But in short, I guess that I just have poor knowledge of the databases and the ways to deal with them.
Those partial backups that I was capable to restore were part of my previous attempts to back up the whole database. It's another question why I wasn't thinking of the possibility to backup only the users data, which is way smaller. Maybe I was thinking that the users and their projects are inseparable. Now I realized they are very separate.
Meantime this year I was actually actively working to rewrite the whole code and eventually rewrite the database structure as well, so it can become much smaller and easy to backup. I even started a process to make the database smaller by deleting history points (leaving each project with only one history point) older than few months years. This also happened slowly.
Now I tried that backup process and I already have 1 backup. It was waaaay easier and less scarier than what I was assuming. I think I was too scared of the database, which resulted in me not seeing all the possibilities, and focusing on the wrong ones instead.
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I paid the ransom more than 12 hours ago, I wrote an email to the hacker and I still have no answer, so... maybe I was right this time
