Which means spectre didn’t hack me. I hacked myself the moment I viewed the theme preview in my browser.
There’s a post from 2014. Title: Author: spectre — a user I banned in 2016 for posting real addresses.
I open it. kai@vexhosting.invalid
Attached: velvet_noir_nulled.zip (password: themire)” I shouldn’t click. MyBB 1.8 is ancient—end-of-life, full of known exploits if you’re careless. But The Mire still gets 200 active users a night. People sharing creepypasta, lost media, and urban legends. If the theme is real, Velvet Noir was a $75 theme that made everything look like black velvet and red neon. The developer vanished after a doxxing scandal.