Hongkiat.com defaced and hacked

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Cely woke me from my dream telling me hongkiat.com was hacked and defaced. I totally did not see this coming, but it is entirely my fault that I did not upgrade to Wordpress 2.2.1 as soon as possible.

The Damages

The defaced messages sounds quite personal, it seems like the hacker has been following my entries. Besides defacement, the database was gone too but I managed to recover from a backup copy. Entries for the pass 2-3 days were gone.

I thank those who took the initiatives to inform me through e-mails, IMs, and text messages. It should be fine now. It hurts but lesson learned.

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Posted by hongkiat in Blogosphere , at 06.26.07

Comments

  1. Ahmad Uzair June 26th, 2007

    What a pity.Thank God you had a backup.After been hacked by Jamaycka, now I frequently make a backup.

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  2. earl-ku June 26th, 2007

    macibai … never mentioned me for giving u a call at 4am? kaninia …

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  3. melvin,foong June 26th, 2007

    If you want a copy of ur past 2 day’s archives, let me know. Cheers.

    And next time, don’t message me with “Don’t tell me it is not you” I rather you message me with Hello, or Hi, or morning =)

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  4. Nicholas June 26th, 2007

    Oh, this site is back online.

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  5. Kimkins June 26th, 2007

    Yeah I saw that yesterday as I was telling one of my friend about your post regarding 400 Malaysian blogs were hacked.

    And when I came here…OMG you became one of the victim.

    But anyway good to see you back! You will be able to recover your previous posts (if you want) using google cache. Just search for the post titles and if they were indexed by google, it will appear and just click on Cached and get the cached version. Then later you can repost them in your wp.

    wish you all the best

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  6. CincauHangus June 26th, 2007

    i tot u were doin another april fool joke. :P

    anywayyy.. who ask u not to upgradeee… :P

    come go out have a beer. i know u sad..

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  7. David June 26th, 2007

    I’m signed up for your rss feeds and i’ll click the link from time to time, very informative stuff you have here. I was quite upset when i saw that your site was defaced.

    I”ve had similar experiences. A hacker once took down my design portfolio and disrupted my business. I havent been able to get back on track fully since.

    I’ve been doing alot of reading from your site and it does help alot. Keep up the good work.

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  8. CincauHangus June 26th, 2007

    kilkenny? on me. mau?

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  9. kucau June 26th, 2007

    i dont think the defacer is kinda leet. they are actually a bunch of script kiddies whos use ready made script. they are the real noob

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  10. hongkiat June 26th, 2007

    Ahmad: I’m glad my host did backups regulary :-)

    Earl: I din not realized your call 4.00 in the morning. Phone batt run dry this morning, but thank you la, especially your post on that. You sound happy thou.

    Melvin: Knowing what you are capable of, you’ll probably think the same. At least I did not jump on conclusion. ;p

    Nicholas, Kimkins: Previous 2 post were fine; I have backups at home.

    Cincau: April Fool over la, I wont do such thing especially when it potentially hurts my online revenue. Siao! I’ll still take your killkenny.

    David: I learned the important of constant backup now, haha.

    Kucau: The defacer definitely thinks it’s cool. Btw, I’ve got the SQL injection exploits, hate to believe such things are so easy available online.

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  11. belle June 26th, 2007

    shih parrrrkk!

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  12. earl-ku June 26th, 2007

    wahahahahahahah i am i am i am … told u i hate tech blogger rite … wahahahha

    but hey like what lilian said, been there, so i know how frustrating is it … haha

    Cincau, eh got killkenny for me or not? mahai …

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  13. Zaizen June 26th, 2007

    I realized your blog has been hacked today 8 am morning..i try to chat wif u via gmail but no have answer..now..looks hongkiat.com lback to normal..you’re so fast man solve this problem..

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  14. hongkiat June 26th, 2007

    belle: you’re next! Hahah.

    earl: A moment there I was panicked too when I realized DB was gone, there goes half year of blogging. been there, learned and learned well. :-) Backup DB and you sleep soundly.

    Zaizen: Sorry buddy, wasnt able to respond to you as I was buzy ’saving’ the blog from the disaster. My site monitor report says its been down since 4.00am yesterday.

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  15. Wing Loon June 26th, 2007

    Damn…hackers are fast if you really don’t get your wordpress up2date, :(

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  16. yipguseng June 26th, 2007

    glad u made it back pal!!

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  17. Michael June 27th, 2007

    alamak.. another case here ar? .. eh.. melvin fong? are you the melvin i know ar?.. @@?

    hmm.. the hacker sound malaysian la @@

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  18. Adam June 27th, 2007

    Glad to see that you are back up again. I blogged about you yesterday: http://www.adamok.net/2007/06/hongkiats-blog-hacked.html

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  19. CincauHangus June 27th, 2007

    earl: caaan… i order for you.. you pay lar..

    u two, tonite mau?

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  20. Jason June 27th, 2007

    HongKiat.com is back!! Yeah…

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  21. mrBadak June 29th, 2007

    aisey… looks like someone got jealous over you being a problogger? ignore those kids!

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  22. syahid ali June 29th, 2007

    based on the writings on the defaced page, i think the script kiddies are malaysian. feel sorry for your site though.

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  23. belle July 1st, 2007

    = = ” i knw who to find if i kena..u babi

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  24. melvin,foong July 3rd, 2007

    HAHA, knowing what I am capable of, you should give me a lunch treat. Else I hax0r you. HAHHAHAHAh!!!!1one

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  25. Fenton July 3rd, 2007

    People sometimes are really notorious. Anyway, great to have you back.

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  26. tihopilik July 9th, 2007

    Hello

    I can’t be bothered with anything these days, but shrug. I just don’t have anything to say recently.

    Bye

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  27. ananth77 July 24th, 2007

    Glad that you are back online … so shall i wish welcome back .. or has it been too late to do so? :p

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  28. hongkiat July 24th, 2007

    Ananth77: Haha, it makes me wonder how come you are getting this news so late, probably you came from google links or probably reach this page from a link back. Hongkiat.com is back online 1 month ago. Thanks for the concern though :-)

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  29. bantingboy June 16th, 2008

    waa. that bad right..:)

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  30. Ren June 18th, 2008

    You’re noob. We’re leets.

    Haxored! Owned! Pwnd!

    pretty nice.

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  31. chyan October 24th, 2008

    You’re n00b. W3′r3 l33ts

    Hax’d! Own’d! Pwn’d!

    Thats more uber :D

    But all this points out that they just wanna have self pleasure.

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