I’ve Been Hacked!

I made a startling discovery today. It turns out someone has been using my blog to spam. It wasn’t nearly as serious as I first thought, but someone was using the trackbacks functionality (the ability to link to my blog from another blog or site which lets you see who’s linked me) to link my site to porn sites. This allowed my site under trackbacks on each article (which thankfully aren’t shown by default) to show links to porn sites. Simply fantastic. You can imagine how mad/annoyed I was.

Anyways, it took me awhile to clean it up because I had to manually clean up stuff in the database, since there were probably close to 13,000 different links to various places. And that’s probably not even .01 percent of the crap that’s out there. I think it’s all removed now and I’ve disabled trackbacks. So hopefully it doesn’t happen again, but the Internet is a scary place which I chose to take up residence in, so I guess it’s to be expected. I guess I just wish people weren’t so stupid.

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