Apologies To Anyone Who Suffered From My Site Getting Hacked

Everton | Aug 20, 2008 | View Comments


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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About the Author: 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.He also writes for Windows 7 News, Windows 8 News and One Tip A Day.

  • 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.

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  • That is so out of order, did you have any luck proving who was responsible?
  • i didn't understand why people do this(hacking), when they know that original site can be restored quickly.

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  • It must have been awful. I have no idea what I will do in your situation.
  • 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

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  • I was getting a bit worried when the redirection started to happen.

    Glad to see you up and running again.
  • Welcome back
  • Hey Everton,

    Sorry to hear about the problems you've had with the site. Grab me on MSN next time you're on - would be good to catch up and perhaps we can trace that IP address that you have.

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  • Depending on your local laws this could be a civil or a criminal case. If you're in the US or UK it's definitely illegal to mess with someone else's website even if you actually gave them access under a contract.

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  • Glad to hear you got it all sorted now!  Hope you manage to figure out who it was.

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