Google just told me my blog is being taken out of their index. I investigated. Spammers took over my blog footer, inserting a large set of invisible hyperlinks. They did even worse: they created a large set of PHP files (hundreds!) that were serving spam from my blog without my knowledge.

I upgraded WordPress, changed my passwords, and I removed the offending files.

At least, Google was nice enough to warn me.

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3 Comments »

  1. where are you hosting it?

    Comment by Ricardo Niederberger Cabral — 5/9/2008 @ 12:17

  2. My domain is hosted at csoft.net, but it is not my domain that was hacked, just the blog. Csoft.net is not responsible. I was careless.

    Comment by Daniel Lemire — 5/9/2008 @ 13:21

  3. Most all blog hacks are from people not upgrading their blog software.

    If you don’t make a ton of changes, just backup your template one time, then create or download a script to email you a database dumb every couple days.

    Hacker Forums

    Comment by Hacker Forums — 7/10/2008 @ 15:30

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