Yup, We Were Hacked (Along with a Few Thousand of Our Cell-Mates)
In case you didn’t stop by over the weekend to be greeted with some great circa-2002 web design and a lame .mp3, you did might’ve missed the news that we, along with Atomic Toasters were hacked.
More accurately, our entire hosting provider’s network was hacked. Someone left the back door open at InMotion Hosting and a band of wankers did a find and replace on every index.php file on the content servers. Unlike the Gawker-ocalypse and PSN hacks, this appears to have just been an act of convenient vandalism, and no data was mined. The extent of the fix has been to find-and-re-replace.
That said, it might be a good idea to keep an eye on any account that uses the same login as the username/email/password you might use here. Rest assured, we’re on…what’s the one under red? Orangish alert around here, in case this is just the beginning. And yes, we’re shopping around a bit for hosting providers.
Do us a favor and note any weirdness (beyond the usual), and feel free to drop us a line.
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Oh god, oh god, oh god, oh god.
Sorry Tim. It was probably bound to happen sooner or latter.
I believe I speak for everyone here when I say thank goodness they didn't steal our precious, precious points.
Oh, and all the content. Right. That's important, too.
Nope, points. Points are all that matter.
Shhhhhh! Say nice things about the content or we might ose-lay our oints-pay.
That's how it worked at the last place that got hacked, anyway.
THUMBS DOWN FOR YOU.
Shit, that was a thumbs-up. Ah well, same diff.
Well the post made with the original BЯдΖǐL-ЯЄРΘЯΤЄЯ login didn't show up earlier today
Everything's back to normal, then?
let´s see if this shows up
I've given up being annoyed at having to log in every time I have to make a response, but "BЯдΖǐL-ЯЄРΘЯΤЄЯ" must have been a real pain in the ass to type in every time.
Some hackers have found out double functions with the CTRL key,,,, Ooops did I told too much?
I had nothing to do with this.
I was told there would be doughnuts.
I am just glad we're back.
I for one was welcoming our new Bangladeshi overlords. After all, why can't you guys autoresize the window and make it bounce all over the screen. We demand FEATURES!
My other working hypnothesis was that Jim just wanted to play hooky and enjoy this weekend's spectacular New England weather, instead of babysitting a hot, sweaty server farm.
Glad you're back up and that all is well in hoonlandia once again.
Meh, I'm not worried. If they got my info, all they will find is a few maxed out credit cards, and a bank account with two digits on the right side of the decimal point…and none on the left. I keep anything of value in my mattress, or in my cellar next to the tin-foil helmets and dehydrated space chum.
Ooh, space chum!
None on the left? That's just sloppy notation; you should switch to a bank that uses a leading zero.
Yeah, the leading zero option came with a monthly fee.
Good call, then. Penny wise, pound foolish.
Given most of the automotive nightmares sitting in my driveway…I'd say that assumption is spot-on!
Here's a plug for Total Choice Hosting. I've used them on my far-less-impressive blog for years and I've been very impressed with their service.
It was just really lazy and lame redirects, right? Because some parts of the site still worked.
Yeah, there were a few back-doors to real content available.
Yo, I tried to help you man, but you gotta stop lettin' your mamma dress you!
(Sorry, sorry, I apologize…the "Hackers" poster pic has movie quotes running through my head now)
My Hooniverse Gold log-in no longer works.
Send me your monthly payment and I'll see what I can do.
Im sending a casheers check for 5000$. Please refund me any funds excess not nneded.
It's a start, but what about the rest of this month's payment?
I Can have his IdentiFication card readys for your agreement at any time necessary
Yeah, the valet lost my keys, too.
So what was the extent of the hack from a visitor's standpoint? I mean, what exactly did you see?
We started getting notifications in the wee hours of the morning, but "some" of us went back to sleepy-town after reading that Mad Science was all over it like smoke on a TR7.
Yeah, we're supportive like that.
Scroll downt he main page and Jim has a screenshot of what you were greeted with.
As is the best policy with gangs/taggers, I didn't want to honor/indulge the wankers by reposting their names or giving them any further notoriety.
Good call.
Damned Wankies.
Thank goodness it wasn't the same goons who hacked torrent-finder.com, that was months ago, and they still haven't fixed it.
It was a minor annoyance, it turns out. Still, it screwed up my morning routine, check the news, the Book of Face, and Hooniverse, before leaving for work. Anything that disrupts this routine pisses me off, and this was a major piss off. Is there any way that the geeks who hang out at Atomic Toasters can back-hack these mouth breathers, and fry their machines that they use to annoy honest folks like us?
I knew something felt weird this weekend………….[youtube E4bi-W1Uah0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4bi-W1Uah0 youtube]
I'm occasionally in view in this video (in the back singing "bass" (quotes because it's mostly high baritone and I'm actually a bass… but have some range) wearing the 'butternut' (hehehehe butternut) colored hunter's frock and brown hat (we did camp and sing again this year, as always… and took our shetland pony out to run around while pulling us in the cart… even though it was muddy as hell!)
Q: do you know what colonial soldiers did when it rained?
A: THEY GOT WET.
a chicken has a brain (holds hands up) * this big (let's assume a walnut, for fun!) and it knows how to get out of the rain.
I'm not going to post my political opinions here… but I think you can see where I'm headed