Alibi Gets Hacked

August 6, 2007 // Drew Stauffer

Every once in a while Wordpress releases newer versions of their popular blog platform urging people to upgrade to avoid hackers exploiting security loop holes. I always told myself that I would get around to it, but never actually made the time.

Yesterday I got a phone call from a friend asking me if I changed my site. Since I view my site quite a few times a day and actually viewed the site hours before, I confidently told him no. Much to my surprise, when I viewed my site I was greeted with a new screen.

alibi gets hacked

In a post from Threadwatch you can read about shoemoney, wolf-howl, and stuntdubl also being hacked.

The moral of the story is if Wordpress offers an upgrade, you should seriously consider doing it immediately. Here is the latest Wordpress 2.2.1 version.

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2 responses so far ↓

1 Sujan Patel // Aug 6, 2007 at 7:38 pm

Looks like your back. Thats the one bad thing about wordpress. I always dred updating wordpress software because alot of times my plugins stop working.
2 Drew Stauffer // Aug 7, 2007 at 1:42 am

@ Sujan
I know what you mean. Right after I wrote this post I saw that Wordpress released version 2.2.2