Marina’s Bloggariffic got hacked
Yesterday afternoon, I noticed an older post was got back to the front page. And I wondered to myself, What could be missing?
Luckily for me, I could recreate that particular post, thanks to google cache. I couldnt save the older archives though. I am not able to save the comments either.
In a way, I did anticipate that something like this would happen and did backups. But interestingly enough, when I uploaded my wordpress backup, it messed up my blog with an additional 200+ categories and another 200+ duplicate posts. Was it because my posts were imported from blogger from December 2006 and earlier ?
Last night I spent several hours having to delete all the extra categories and posts. I was really agitaged. And then I thought to myself, why should I stress myself over this? So I’ll just let it go for now.
Bye bye missing posts! May you rest in peace in technoheaven above…
April 19th, 2007 at 11:27 am
Oh. That’s why last night Ping.sg was getting almost non-stop pings from your blog. Hundreds of pings with an interval of less than a minute, causing Ping.sg back-end engine to jam up (Ping.sg couldn’t visit any of the users’ blogs for latest pings).
But good thing also that happens early. I quickly added in codes to combat ping spamming. :)
Hope your blog’s okay now. Make sure you update to the latest version of Wordpress.
April 19th, 2007 at 11:39 am
Uzyn
Yikes! I didnt realised that it messed up ping.sg too! Sorry!!! *kneels down and postrates*
Well, the blog isnt “complete” and there are still missing posts here and there but I think I’ll let the missing posts be missing … I think its just not worth getting stressed over, right?
I’ll just be ambivalent for now … :\
Thanks Uzyn :]
April 19th, 2007 at 11:52 am
Hey, Rinaz. So this is why you said, “Sorry” in the shoutbox. :-)
Couldn’t your web host roll back your blog to the last backup?
April 19th, 2007 at 11:57 am
Uzyn: you just revealed ping.sg’s weakness. Wait hackers gang up and ping flood ping.sg. :P
April 19th, 2007 at 12:28 pm
Clappingtree
I dont see anywhere in the site that they do that … :S
DK
WAH! *digs a hole and burries herself*
April 19th, 2007 at 1:11 pm
hacked!!! oh no!!! you are the 5th person whose blog got hacked.. 4 of them emailed me complaining that their blog, email, and even friendster acct got hacked.. and they now having hard time to retrieve their account back.. shucks!!! i hope this won’t happen to me.. if not i will run to sha.tc hostel, wake him up and cry like a baby, and tell him how shah??!!!!
April 19th, 2007 at 1:46 pm
im so sorry to hear about the mishappenings marina.
Did you update wordpress? 4 days ago there was a critical update patch to wp ver. 2.1.3
As for your previous posts, try contacting your provider. i hope they do daily backups, so you can retrieve back the database.
God speed.
April 19th, 2007 at 5:09 pm
Yanni
Yeah, I think its good for you to be vigilant. Seems that loads of people that I know are getting hacked too. Very scary stuff. Um… I hope it does not get until so bad that you have to go to sha’s hostel for it … :P
Malique
Actually I was version 2.12, I didnt want to update so fast because we all know what happened in 2.11 - thats when they just published it for download but it was full of vulnerabilities.
So I thought I’d just wait a while till it gets to something more stable.
Oh well.
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Thanks for the kind words everyone. Really appreciate them *hugs*
April 20th, 2007 at 9:29 pm
Yea me too, as a new Wordpress user, Im pretty cautious about the updates as well. Really sorry to hear that your posts are no longer available. I know this sounds weird, but to cheer you up, are u free this Sunday? Have been wanting to meet you up for quite a while.. =)
April 20th, 2007 at 10:01 pm
:P takdalah…. run to his hostel and wake him up to fix it for me. if he doesnt know then i will bash him. muahahah!!! aiyo rina, what are u thinking huh???
April 22nd, 2007 at 2:17 am
so it’s a flaw in wordpress vulnerabilities? which version. what’s the cause of the hack … thats why i never upgrade to v2.1+, still at v2.0 as i know v2.1 & above very da problematic one
pretty scary such hacks la
lucky for backups … still the work process to get it back to normal mode again, haiz. i feel for ya, i know
P.S eh wats tis going to my hostel … u think its a hotel ah
April 24th, 2007 at 6:37 am
Vania
Really? You’re a wordpress user? Is it the .com or the .org one?
About the missing posts, oh well, I’ve come to terms about it already. No use berating over it anymore, I think. Wow, you want to meet me? Sorry I didnt reply sooner as I’ve been occupied helping a friend last weekend. But I’ll have to take a rain cheque on that :)
Yanni
What am I thinking? Just PG stuff … :P
Sha
You know, version 2.2 is soon to be released. But I’m not going to upgrade that soon. Who knows what will happen.
p.s Dont look at me *points to yanni* she started it :P
April 24th, 2007 at 2:35 pm
eh apa ni???!!! i dont mean anything tau… hahah!! huh i didnt know version 2.1 got lots of problems.. :( i takut!!!!
April 25th, 2007 at 2:48 pm
Hehe, yup, Im a fellow wordpress user. Im using the .com one. Btw, any idea how to add music into one’s blog? Coz’ Im a newbie to this. =p
Hehe, yup, wanted to meet ya, but it’s ok, theres always another time. =)
April 30th, 2007 at 11:49 pm
Marina:
May I suggest the WordPress Database Backup Plugin. It can do hourly, daily, weekly, or even monthly backup to your email. Better be safe than sorry :-)