Hacked!
Oct04
on October 4, 2016
at 9:41 pm
Posted In: Uncategorized
So, on Sunday night I got a email post from my webhost telling me that my server had been Shanghaied and was being used by parties unknown to run spam bots. They took my site down and I’ve been spending the last two days getting things set up again. WordPress in particular (the software I use to serve this comic) is not the easiest program to restore, so it may take a while to get everything back in place as I reupload each comic page. Luckily I still have all the old pages saved off line so no data is lost.
Anyhow, the server folks have been very helpful in helping me get back up again. The locks have all been changed, so hopefully this nasty business is not going to be repeated.
Best of luck to you.
Getting ‘hacked’ (rather exploited, but semantics…) is never a fun ordeal, but good of the server admins helping out as much as possible.
Personal note; having a single rotating monthly backup will help a lot with getting stuff up and running again, if the server owners are willing to set that up for you.
They actually did have a backup which is what allowed me to get back up a lot faster than I otherwise would. However, they also recommended reinstalling a lot of stuff since there was no way of knowing what the bad guys may have contaminated or how long ago it was.