Category Archives: Diary of a Hacked Website

WordPress update haiku

In case you haven’t noticed yet, there’s a new version of WordPress available. Upgrade your website now to avoid falling prey to obnoxious hackers! Here’s a haiku to remind you. I call it “Be alert; the world needs more lerts”: Obnoxious hackers in yr base killing yr d00dz, ruining yr site Srsly.

Diary of a hacked website

UPDATED AT 7:31 PM: My hosting provider apparently deleted all my WordPress files! I have been trying, unsuccessfully, to reinstall them all day, and just put in another support ticket to ask if they could re-install them, seeing as I never expected them to be deleted to begin with. This is really starting to piss

haXXored!

Once again illustrating the importance of always keeping your WordPress files updated, it seems Black Heart was hit by a hacker today! Granted, WordPress only released version 2.8.4 on Wednesday, but the message remains: ALWAYS UPGRADE YOUR VERSION OF WORDPRESS IMMEDIATELY! I was surprised to see that my site had been hit, mostly because a)

Under serious construction

My site was recently destroyed by my incompetent former hosting provider (i.e. Host Refugee), who has suddenly gone out of business, apparently deleting all customer files from their servers. As I try to restore my pages to their former glory, sans backup, please bear with any construction on the site, and thank you for your