Very Possible large scale hack attempt

Today i was away doing errands and attending my business 104 class, and Criminal law 101, between 7am-4:30pm, and unable to run our website, because of that my partner and another helper were running the site and all transactions ect. My partner and i are friends IRL and have been for 20 years + so i know for a fact he had nothing to do with this.

Well with that being said i came back today about 30 minutes ago and logged onto admin control to see how things went while i was away today. I instantly noticed something strange, starting at 3pm there was 36 users on our site at one time, and stayed between 36 - 20ish for the next two hours. Now knowing well that this isn't possible at the momment as we are just a gold site i checked the more advanced details of the visitors. Now i have no other accounts with any other forums and never have besides sythe. I know for a fact that my partner has no accounts on any forums either, and have never advertised on any other site for any reasons, period.


There was 34 users from a site "hackforums.net" all at the same time and stayed for about two hours in total, and a total of 59 from that site clicked to my site, which is also strange as most only stay 10 minutes max to complete their orders. two of the visitors between 3 and 4 i know for a fact are customers, so i have blanked out all non relating ips to hackforums.net. So i eventually clicked the link that shows what site they were on before coming to my site, thats how i know it was hackforums, i have never heard of anything called hackforums untill today when i noticed this. When i click it says "you are not allowed to veiw this page, please register" so i click register, and it says "you are not allowed to register, reason: ;l"

What my point is, is that the origin of this must have been either a user on sythe or a guest visitor on sythe recently, and has asked others to help him in his plan to do whatever on this hackforums. I know it seems like a lot of work to do, but could some one check the ips and see if any of them have been on sythe in the past two days, Because there is no weres else anyone would have hear of leanbean901 from sythe, or my site, thanks!

(i have closed down every option previously available and all content on our site, except for the homepage with the email to contact us if needed, and contacted our live chat provider to close our chat for the time being, untill we can figure all of this out and find out whats going on. Just to be safe.)

Since i know most of the staff are only paid by users donating, and thats only if they donate personally i am willing to donate in multiple ways if one of you could dedicate a little time to check these ips for me

 

I will check these ips, however results and specifics cannot be given out