HongKiat.com defaced
You thought it will never happens to you but when it does are you prepared?
HongKiat.com was defaced yesterday. He lost his database and 2-3 days of posts.
Hong Kiat’s Fix:
1. Upgrade to WordPress 2.2.1
2. Restore the backup of the database. He was lucky to have one.
I visit Hong Kiat.com almost everyday, his posts are quite good. It’s to know that he is back online.
Lesson to learn:
Make sure to always upgrade when a security patch is released. We don’t live in a perfect world anymore where people are nice and decent. Your best friend is prevention.
Wing Loon | June 26th, 2007 at 10:06 pm #
I also faced problem accessing his website…got this news after visit your blog man,
Damn, hackers are fast…if your system is not up2date. Prevention is better than cure,
alanbernard | July 2nd, 2007 at 9:12 am #
damn. I’m definately doing back-ups n patches more frequently after seeing this… I don’t want some hacker who can’t spell properly defacing my site.
ArahMan7 | December 29th, 2007 at 10:19 am #
I still couldn’t get thru’ HongKiat. After Googling HongKiat, I found this site. At least I know what’s going on.
See you around. Greetings and lots of love from Kuala Kangsar.