Social Media Spin

Sorry folks, about the crazy site redi­rec­tion some of you got here recently. Looks like this site was hacked. I was able to take care of it pretty quickly, but this attack had some weird characteristics:

1. It hijacked my pages and redi­rected my US vis­i­tors to a China sex site (NSFW but not really porn)
2. Some of the ads on the redi­rected site fea­tured pic­tures of peo­ple like Chris Pir­illo and Dar­ren Rowse who seemed to be celebrity spon­sors (I really doubt they were!)
3. Iron­i­cally, there was even 1 video ad for Lysol dis­in­fect­ing wipes at the redi­rected site!
4. My web host, 1&1 (in the Philip­pines) could not see the redi­rect when I phoned them for cus­tomer sup­port — or else lied because they didn’t want to help

This was def­i­nitely unex­pected and no bueno, but I had back­ups to fall back on in the case of some­thing nasty like this hap­pen­ing. What about your busi­ness? Do you have a dis­as­ter plan in place?

Please con­sider run­ning a virus/​malware scan if you were redi­rected to some ran­dom site from ghennipher.net. I’d hate to be viral in a bad way.

Did any of you have other expe­ri­ences with my hijacked site?