A few words about spam

[joost]

I am so sorry guys. There is something really fishy going on - basically all the countermeasures against spam had been deactivated in the control panel. It's going to take me awhile to clean and fix this but I'm doing it now. (I'm still on two minds whether this was a real hacking because the damage seems to be limited to the forum only, but obviously I'm changing all passwords etc).

Could they have been reset when the hosting company restored the database shortly after the upgrade? I know there were some lost posts around that time, perhaps there were some settings lost too.