By Thilak ⋅ November 23, 2006

TechBuzz Hacked!!

Earlier tonight all my blog including TechBuzz was hacked a Turkish hacker who goes by the name iSKORPiTX. He is the same guy who hacked Shoemoney’s blog. According to SecurityProNews, He is thought to be a 45-year-old Turkish man. Since 2003, he’s hacked an estimated 117,000 websites read more >>

This is the first time I’ve been hacked. I’m not sure how he gained the access to my blog, but he didn’t delete my data, he just replaced the index.php file. I’ve learnt a lesson from this episode. Thanks to Hans for finding out that my blog was hacked.

PS: My personal blog is still under repair, I’ll get back to you ASAP.

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Discussion

Comments for “TechBuzz Hacked!!”

  • Good you are back.That really scares me though.
  • Ashish: Do a habbit of regularly backing up your blog. I'll serve as a insurance, just incase your blog gets hacked by someone.

    Thanks for the comment :)
  • Thilak:
    This Turkish hacker's story has been very popular Now. Did you ask your host to blog the IP address of this Hacker?

    The Qiestion is how did he gain access to your Blog?

    Very Easy! Pluggin! If you use some old pluggin, that could be a reason, hackers can easily manipulate this type of script.

    Make sure that you don't have folder with 777 permission, it is like a welcome message to Hacker!

    Through a reverse ip look up, check all other website are working fine under you host, if all other website has been also hacked like yours, the question is about your Host security features! If they are only saying a sorry, it is time to look for another better host.
  • Was FTP compromised or was it incorrect write permissions on your index.php?
  • Linu: Thanks for the tip, I'll change my write permission, but I don't think that was the reason, all blogs hosted on my host's server are hacked by the same person. Time to search for a new host, any suggestions ?
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