Officially back after the hack
So last thursday, just as I was about to shut down and leave the office, I received my least favorite twitter message of all time. Basically, I was informed through the tweet that my blog had been hacked. Very confused, I pulled up my browser and sure enough, my blog had been replaced by some stupid “you’ve been hacked” message. Long story short, after a lot of help from a buddy (thanks again Dave), several precautionary password changes, a complete export of my blog, a wipe of my server, a fresh install of WordPress, and an import, I was back up and running. Sort of.
As pissed as I was, in the end it wasn’t all the crap listed above that really had me frustrated. I mean, the blog itself was completely intact. The thing that really had me upset was that my custom theme was what was destroyed in the attack. Now I don’t claim to be any sort of master designer of WordPress themes, but I like knowing that no one is running my theme. I like playing with it, tweaking it, and getting it exactly the way I want it. Even though I was completely back up an running by Friday morning, it just didn’t feel the same running a theme I had downloaded from WordPress.org.
Well, tonight (or this morning I guess) I finally got around to implementing a new custom theme. And it once again feels like home. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ve missed a lot of sleep these past few days and I’d like to get some tonight (or this morning I guess).
posted by Christopher Schnese
