Aug 8

damn. I got lazy and wouldn’t you know it, I got hacked. A guy calling himself KiLLer HaCk repainted all of my websites for me this morning around 7am. It was totally my fault, I had some boneheaded permissions on some files and he found them.  He did have the kindness to spare the files and just
thrashed my index pages, so many thanks for that.  I have a backup that is a couple of weeks old that I’m bringing back online and I’ll try to get most of the updates current as soon as I can.
You may notice that I’m  not mad or anything like that, and for good reason. This person did very little damage (though I wish he had made backups) and he exposed a problem that could have been exploited by someone much more malicious.  In the end, he did me a service and it only cost me a couple of
hours of my time. So, hang out. I’ll get everything back up and running and we’ll continue down this lovely yellow brick road shortly.

Update

I was able to talk to the guy that hit the website. Turns out it wasn’t me but someone else on my shared host that he was able to break in through. Then my shared host provider evidentlly didn’t have the tightest security in the world, so he hit everyone on the server.  I feel a little better now :)

Enjoy!
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