MicroExplosion is Baaaaaaack!
Well, after five days of a hacker induced hiatus, MicroExplosion is back. I’m very excited the site no longer has the quite unfortunate “attack site” label on it. I’d like to thank Nathan for his time and attention to get everything restored as well as a long lost friend, John Rader, who stepped in to help troubleshoot the issues.
Long story short there was some malicious code on at least one item embedded on the site. We don’t know how it got there but it’s fixed. Thanks again Nathan and John!!
So that’s one down, one to go. My Twitter account which was hacked the same evening last week (still trying to see what, if any, connection there is to the site issues) is still inactive. Basically what happened was I had been using a very (let me stress…VERY) insecure password and someone hacked it and tried to do something malicious. Twitter responded appropriately and suspended the account…probably before any major damage was done, but the account is still suspended.
I’ve emailed Twitter a few times since last Thursday but haven’t heard from them so I’m going to ask a few of you who happen to be on Twitter to try to contact Caroline or Del at Twitter support. They seem like the proper ladies to help get it fixed. Just tell them, “Bill was dumb. Bill needs help. Please help Bill get his account back: @billseaver.” That might do the trick.
We now return to the regularly scheduled blogging.
Tags: site hacked, Twitter account suspended, Twitter suspended
May 18th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
Wow Bill. I just listened to your show about this happening.
The cloud can be a scary, scary place sometimes.
I was locked out of Twitter for a few days once, it was a frightening experience.
Nice to see you’re back!
Cheers,
Dave
May 18th, 2009 at 9:02 pm
Thanks Dave! Yes, it was pretty crazy but all in all it wasn’t too bad.
May 21st, 2009 at 11:37 am
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