Hacked by r00tx0
Today someone “hacked” my blog, and a lot of others on MediaTemple’s shared grid hosting, replacing index.php files randomly with:
haCkeD By r00t-x ~ r00tx0@gmail.com ~
Some script kiddie ran a sploit; apparently things are being fixed now:
We have completed the work necessary to secure our GRID infrastructure from this exploit.
We have also repaired the majority of affected sites using our automated tools. We will continue to run these tools throughout the night. Please let us know if you see anything out of place and we will dig deeper.
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That is why it is so important to have backups
Glad to hear your back up…
I have heard good things about MT in general… But a lot of bad things about their server security…
Lot’s of peeps in the past have had that happen…
“glad to hear your back-up”