Why can't they just spare the money and buy a vBulletin license, or even use a free alternative such as phpBB...

Coding a forum of your own is not worth it security wise, time wise, money wise and useability wise.

DL83 Wrote:Well, this is a little late. Maybe this is how I got hacked.

Can't you read, it's an XSS exploit. I think that alone should make it obvious that it has no relation to the actual game (that is, unless you are using the same id\password for your forum account and maple account).