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Hi everyone,

I hope you’re all excited about our recent move to Xenforo! We definitely are. If you want more details about that, please click here for our official unveiling message.

This thread is for a bit more of an unhappy purpose. Some members have been banned. We do not usually do this, but given the situation, we felt that it would be better to inform you directly rather than let speculation and misinformation run rampant.

Basically, a group of users chose to utilize holes in vBulletin’s security to access our staff forum—a key tool for us, without which pretty much nothing could be done—and download archives of our threads, later circulating them amongst members.

While the move to Xenforo had many considerations, like feature availability, ease of use, modern design, etc., security was a large part of that. We long suspected something along these lines was going on, but have found concrete proof during our move and banned the involved members. Obviously we have no way of knowing the scope of who these thread archives reached, so we have only banned those members we have concrete proof against. We are still researching the issue, and urge you to come forward to a staff member if you have any information.

We are confident that, with this change in software, the forum is secure. However, if you wish to lockdown your account, here are some steps you can take:

• Using a unique password, with mixed case, numbers, symbols, etc.
• Using an email address with an equally strong password
• Changing your password every few months
• Being careful about what computers you check the ‘Remember Me’ box on
• Not sharing your account details with anyone
• If you must write your passwords down, doing so in a safe location

We take hacking very seriously here. Those who may consider attacking the site in the future should remember that even a threat to do so will land you a permanent ban at the least.

If you have additional concerns or questions, please feel free to contact myself or another staff member. However, please note that these members’ bans are not up for discussion or debate. They have broken one of our core rules and this is their punishment.

We hope that this new era for KH-Vids will aid us in building the strongest iteration yet.

Most sincerely,
The KH-Vids.Net Staff