Social Media Spin » hacked http://www.ghennipher.net Relevant Social Marketing Tips Mon, 12 Dec 2011 20:26:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 H@x0R3D! http://www.ghennipher.net/social-media/uncategorized/hx0r3d/ http://www.ghennipher.net/social-media/uncategorized/hx0r3d/#comments Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:56:40 +0000 Ghennipher http://www.ghennipher.net/?p=603 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?

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