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Apologies To Anyone Who Suffered From My Site Getting Hacked

By on August 20, 2008 in Blogging | Comments { 18 }

Anyone who has tried to use Connected Internet over the last couple of days will have noticed that all pages were being redirected to a dodgy site.  We’ve just found the hack and fixed it.  I would like to apologise to anyone who has been affected by the hack.

What actually happened was someone logged in USING MY PASSWORD and changed some settings and key files.  I’ve learnt a lesson here as whenever I’ve had somebody working on my site I’ve given them my details, rather than creating a temporary account.  Even though I have a pretty good idea who did this, I can’t prove it, although I have their IP address, so I might get lucky.

18 Responses to Apologies To Anyone Who Suffered From My Site Getting Hacked

  1. Jon August 24, 2008 at 10:52 am #

    Good to see you back! My previous hosting company suffered a hack attack and it took them weeks to get everything working right again. Glad you’ve managed to fix it quickly

    Cheers, Jon

    Read Jon’s latest blog post….Salons on TV – “Tabatha’s Salon Takeover” launches in USA>>>

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  2. Jon August 24, 2008 at 11:52 am #

    Good to see you back! My previous hosting company suffered a hack attack and it took them weeks to get everything working right again. Glad you’ve managed to fix it quickly

    Cheers, Jon

    Read Jon’s latest blog post….Salons on TV – “Tabatha’s Salon Takeover” launches in USA>>>

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  3. Shashank September 5, 2008 at 12:37 pm #

    i didn’t understand why people do this(hacking), when they know that original site can be restored quickly.

    Read Shashank’s latest blog post….Firefox & IE Gets a Competitor: Google Chrome>>>

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  4. Shashank September 5, 2008 at 1:37 pm #

    i didn’t understand why people do this(hacking), when they know that original site can be restored quickly.

    Read Shashank’s latest blog post….Firefox & IE Gets a Competitor: Google Chrome>>>

    Reply
  5. PS3 September 5, 2008 at 9:02 pm #

    That is so out of order, did you have any luck proving who was responsible?

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  6. PS3 September 5, 2008 at 10:02 pm #

    That is so out of order, did you have any luck proving who was responsible?

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  7. Hacker Forums October 7, 2008 at 8:22 pm #

    Most all blog hacks are from people not upgrading their blog software.

    If you don’t make a ton of changes, just backup your template one time, then create or download a script to email you a database dumb every couple days.

    <a href=”http://www.hackerforums.org/”>Hacker Forums</a>

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  8. Hacker Forums October 7, 2008 at 9:22 pm #

    Most all blog hacks are from people not upgrading their blog software.

    If you don’t make a ton of changes, just backup your template one time, then create or download a script to email you a database dumb every couple days.

    <a href=”http://www.hackerforums.org/”>Hacker Forums</a>

    Reply
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