Something Screwy’s Going On Here…
April 26th, 2008 by Cristina Favreau
… on my blog, that is.
Last week, a post I had written in August 2007 had been reposted as an April 2008 post.
It was brought to my attention a few days ago that my RSS feed is going out with questionable link ads at the bottom of each post.
To top it off, as I was looking through my Google Alerts this morning, I noticed a ping back to my blog with a post called Are You Pissing Off Your Clients? That was a saved blog post in my drafts. I had written it after an upsetting situation with my pediatrician. I wrote a rough draft — I was still quite sour about the whole situation — so I saved it for a future post, waiting to cool off and tie up all the point into a lesson on customer service.
Looks like someone (I could use a stronger word, but I’m going to be nice) has hacked into my blog.
In doing research, I noticed I’m not the only one. Seapegasus Blog talks about a New Blog Spammer Hack that lets spammers put hidden text on a blog’s RSS feed. I’ve lost a dozen subscribers this week alone and I think this has something to do with it.
So while I figure out how to fix this, please be patient and know that I’m not suddenly endorsing enlargement pills nor am I inviting you to watch the latest celebrity s.e.x video.
Anyone else dealing with this? Solutions are welcome!! If you’re running a blog on WordPress, I highly recommend you change your admin password, just in case you’re next!
Hope you get this sorted soon.
Hi Christina,
I hope you get everything sorted out soon. I am sorry to hear about the hacking and all that. It would be so nice if people would find better things to do. Sorry that I don’t have any remedy’s for your situation but I am going to change my password as I do run a wordpress blog.
The hacking is it occuring from admin (as in someone logging in admin way) or is their a security bug/flaw with wordpress that someone can get in another way? Also is it just certain versions of wordpress being hacked or is it just wordpress blogs in general?
Well good luck and I hope you all the luck in getting this all sorted out.
Heidi
Things still aren’t quite ironed out. I’m upgrading to WordPress 2.5. Apparently that will close up any vulnerabilities with my current version.
I’m not sure where the hacking is coming from. I’ve changed all my admin passwords and it’s still not solved…
Thanks for the well wishes!!