I was hacked!
Hi everybody–
I’m sure some of you noticed my site looked strange last week. After I posted my last vlog, “Parental Rights vs. Parental Responsibilities“, about 3 hours later I found I couldn’t get into my administrator account. The next day, someone informed me that it looked like the site had been hacked into. When I checked, sure enough it was.
Fortunately, it does not look like a deliberate attack — no files were deleted and nothing was changed. I did find some suspicious bit of code that I deleted. I suspect it was some kid out there doing it for bragging rights. (Personally, I’d like to see this kid tied up to a pole somewhere and let everyone he’s hacked have a few hacks at him in any way they’d like…). With the help of some friends, I was able to clean up the damage and get the site running normally again.
So, the moral is… make sure you have a good, strong password (letters [with capitals and lowercase] and numbers), close up any security holes you may have, and hope they don’t get through. In case you missed it, the link to last week’s post is: http://www.deafhooddiscourses.com/?p=88.