Owned by “Turkish Hacker iskorpitx”

It’s been an interesting couple of weeks. This site was down for a little while – I backed up the content and was all set to reload WordPress and re-upload everything, but it’s back online without me having to do that.

Also, this past weekend, I got an email from my hosting company telling me that a process they didn’t like was running on one of my FTP accounts, and that if I didn’t do something about it they would. I looked up the one site I had in that account, and found that it had been hacked and defaced by “Turkish hacker Iskorpitx.” A Google search revealed that Iskorpitx is thought to be responsible for hacking and defacing over 117,000 sites in the past four or five years. He doesn’t do much with them- just puts up his own front page to show that you’ve been owned. Fortunately, the hacked site is one I’m not actively using anymore. I just deleted the site folder from my FTP account, which made my hosting service happy. Then I changed all my passwords and opted for “extra web security” in my hosting account.

I’m not sure whether to be annoyed that it happened, relieved that the compromised site wasn’t critical, or honored that I got owned by such a prolific hacker.

Here’s a little more on Iskorpitx in case you are curious – if you follow the link, you can see what my front page looked like when he got through with it. http://www.pinoymoneytalk.com/2007/11/21/lto-website-hacked/