By the way the first numeric part of the email address looks
suspiciously like a unix timestamp. That might help you work out when
something happened? Or it might not.

Cheers,

- Bob -


On 8/01/2012, at 12:24 AM, Warwick <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Bob
>
> I really appreciate you looking into it and coming up with that.
> Apparently they did have a problem before they came to me and hosting
> was moved to us, so I'm guessing we won't have any records that could
> help. But it certainly does provide a viable-sounding explanation.
> I'll check further into it.
>
> Thanks again, much obliged
> Warwick
>
>
> On Jan 7, 8:08 pm, Bob Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi Warwick,
>>
>> I'm way out of touch with osCommerce - was surprised to see it still
>> mentioned. I've not touched it for about 10 years.
>>
>> Anyway, I wondered if the data being incorrect was the result of a SQL
>> injection attack - these can allow attackers to arbitrarily alter any
>> data they wish. Google turned up the bestblooms website in this
>> pastebin 
>> listhttp://pastebin.com/JCvkuuy7referencinghttp://www.bestblooms.co.nz/shop/images/killer.php-
>>  I'm not sure what
>> this is but Googling suggests it might be something to stop the Google
>> Spider from getting stuck in your website.
>>
>> I find it very curious that the pastebin mentioned lists a heap of
>> those killer.php's - it suggests to me that it may be an unintended
>> vector for an attack. It would be interesting to look in your apache
>> access logs (if they go back far enough) and look for odd URL's
>> (especially those that mention "UNION"). 
>> Seehttp://www.ecommy.com/web-security/oscommerce-sql-injectionfor a
>> little more info on SQL injection with an osCommerce flavour.
>>
>> Unfortunately this doesn't help recover your data, but it might help
>> point to a possible problem that needs to be fixed.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> - Bob -
>>
>> On 19 December 2011 09:20, Warwick <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> Hi David
>>
>>> Thanks, yes it's curious alright, because the purchasing public
>>> actually does get the correct set of emails sent to them, so it's
>>> correct somewhere in amongst it all; perhaps just when making the
>>> order and whilst all of the variables are yet to be written to the
>>> database?
>>
>>> Thanks very much for your help.
>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Warwick
>>
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