Yes this discussion forum was hacked

I spent the better part of the last 24 hours trying to sort of the problem with this discussion forum.  Very painful because, of course, had better thing to do, than deal with the finger pointing between the software vendors and web host, and the technical challenges of getting the discussion forum back up without losing data.

I suspect I may have compromised the forum by installing a rogue script (obtained from the vendors support forum) to correct a relatively minor problem with the emoticons  not working properly.

There were hundred of extra files. in fact so many more that they exceeding the site of the entire website to the point my websites billed me at a rate of 7 times my normal monthly charge which was my first clue something was wrong.  I got that charge before the forum crashed.  When I finally looked I saw the hackers were pretty clever masking their scripts belonging to the program.  I could not sort out which files belonged and which ones did not, so I deleted everything.

At any rate, everything seems to be working fine not, but I had to delete everything, change passwords and reinstall the software.  

Now back to some real work...