Hacked

I apologize for all of the mess that you might have saw this morning (and the mess that my fanlistings are still in). My site was hacked because I had a Coppermine installation that I had not used in over a year and had completely forgotten about - until I saw the mess this morning, looked in my raw access logs and tracked down the culprit… Please let this be a reminder to everyone: delete any scripts that you do not use, update any scripts that you do use with the latest updates, and update any plugins you use. Because I forgot to delete that crappy Coppermine installation, I now have to look through every single PHP file and delete a section of code that the hacker appended to every single PHP file. I have at least 10 PHP files for each of my 52 fanlistings on top of all of the Wordpress files I’ve already updated that I still need to fix.

I’m going to use my handy ReminderFox Firefox addon to remind me to check things for updates once a month or so. I would advise everyone to do the same.

[Edit 1:52AM Sunday, April 20] I’ve managed to clean up everything, I think, from this site to all of my fanlistings, my Q*bee quilt, and my portfolio. If you see any weird things going on please let me know. :) [/Edit]

 

4 Responses to “Hacked”

  1. joyce
    joyce said on April 19th, 2008 at 10:34 pm: (Permalink)

    Sorry to hear about the hacker problem. I hate when that happens to people. Hackers suck messing with other people’s hard work - for no reason at all - just to do it I guess. I hope you get everything fixed.

  2. Gina
    Gina said on April 20th, 2008 at 4:54 pm: (Permalink)

    o0o I am sorry to hear that, that must h ave been a pain huh. I haven’t been by your site in awhile I been out of the whole blog site world for awhile, but i am back now with a new domain and i put you in my loved section as well :) hope everything is going well with you and i’ll be visiting more often now, take care!

  3. sikantis
    sikantis said on April 21st, 2008 at 7:48 pm: (Permalink)

    Hard times, I hope it will be better for you!

  4. your sister
    your sister said on May 8th, 2008 at 11:05 am: (Permalink)

    lolz heather! you never told me you got hackd xD noob jk

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