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it had to happen eventually, i guess.

7 October 2007 | maura dot com | 3 Comments

i got hacked. it was very sneaky and bad; a directory filled with references to a certain popular search term somehow got implanted on my site, unbeknownst to me, about a month or so ago, and i only noticed tonight, when i looked at my stats page and found that 95% of my traffic was being directed toward pages within. it’s gone now, but i feel like a fucking newbie-slash-grandma. well, at least i’m not telling anyone about gift cards at certain popular department stores via myspace, but still … blech. i feel terrible right now! this is so embarrassing and violating; i feel like i just found out that there’s been a hidden camera installed in my apartment for the twenty-eight days (nb: that could be because i just watched a rerun of cheaters). i don’t know if this is a sign that i should update more or just take this whole thing down, although the latter would probably mean that the terrorists had won.

3 Comments

  1. Jon Williams said on 7 Oct 2007 at 23.05:

    Any idea how it happened? Old version of wordpress?

  2. maura said on 7 Oct 2007 at 23.06:

    Looks like it was a vulnerability in Akismet actually. Ugh!

  3. richard said on 8 Oct 2007 at 3.16:

    And here I was hoping the title meant you’d gotten hitched. ;)

    Sorry to hear about the hack. That’s totally violating and gross.

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