My ThinkICT blog about all things ICT got hacked a few weeks ago. Because of that and the fact that I didn’t have an ideal backup copy (yeah, we all know we are supposed to backup regularly) it took me a little time to get things straightened out. One casualty of the fix is that I lost the original dates on all of my old blog posts so I had to do a “best guess” to edit them. Any blog posts before June of 2012 will likely be dated for the 10th day of some month in the past. It annoys me that I don’t have exact dates on archived posts, but at least it’s not critically important.
The timing of this very rude hack job couldn’t have been worse. I was setting up an extra blog area to use for my trip to China (the next day!) when I discovered the hack which caused all of my blog links when clicked to divert to a strange URL with a Russian (ru) address. So much for blogging while travelling!
While the site still looked great, any time I clicked a link within the site, it took me to a site that was already pulled offline. At least that was good, but the fact that no visitor could get to my posts and pages really bugged me. At least I’ve cleaned things up now. Lessons learned, for example, add as much security to your site as is reasonable.