My travel website hacked
Apologies for the lack of posts over the last few days. My travel site, Europe a la Carte was hacked. I was able to get the main site up and running again fairly fast but the blog took a bit longer. I was amazed that my site was hacked, it’s not as though there is anything of value such as credit card details. The hacked site had a photo of a Goth and large letters saying “Hacked Pit10 OwnZ Yo”.
Hacked by Christos_m2001
I found my host oneandone to be extremely helpful and efficient. I phoned them as soon as I discovered that the site had been hacked and they were able to get the main site up and running again within minutes. It took a bit longer, around 20 hours, for the blog to be put right as oneandone had to retrieve the files from their back up. I know small businesses are always looking for value for money and I don’t think that oneandone are the very cheapest. I did do some research and choose them because they received high ratings for reliability and customer service.
It was really annoying and frustrating. It damages your reputation because if a visitor to the site/blog sees a message like this they will immediately leave and never return. Some blog subscribers may unsubscribe too. Has you site/blog been hacked? Do you believe that it had any serious effect on your business in the long term?
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on August 8th, 2007 at 3:41 am
I don’t think it has any real long term effect. Your loyal visitors will still be there to support you.
on August 8th, 2007 at 10:29 am
I hope that this is the case, Rose. It was really awful being hacked, I couldn’t think of any good benefit the hacker could derive from hacking my site. it was akin to mindless violence.