Apologies To Anyone Who Suffered From My Site Getting Hacked


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.

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Everton is based in London and has worked in the internet and mobile space for over ten years now, and before that worked in corporate strategy and consulting. He has a degree in Economics from Cambridge University, and currently runs the Portal and online operations for one of the largest ISPs in the UK. He also writes for Windows 7 News.

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  1. #11

    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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