Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/12/18

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Subject: [Leica] Hacker attack (Contacting Bob P. and Gene, Chicago folks)
From: rangefinder at screengang.com (Didier Ludwig)
Date: Mon Dec 18 00:44:36 2006
References: <a2f8f4470612180033n6d5ee489j9fb76fc10fa0785@mail.gmail.com>

Blame your ISP (and then choose another one). Should not happen with safe 
ftp accounts and well chosen passwords. I hope you have your own backups of 
your websites? I do mirror every website on a personal apache server in my 
home, including all db's and server based code like mysql, cgi and so on, 
because don't trust the ISP's backup technologies. Once, after a server 
crash, they managed to upload a website backup which was 4 years old. 
Couldn't believe it! 
Didier


>Well didn't I just get a nice welcome on my little vacation?
>I got to Chicago, tried to access my site and couldn't. Turned out a
>hacker has hacked my ISP:s routines and deleted my account and 15
>others.
>No domain, no web page, no email and the ISP says they changed back-up
>routines on Friday and a new one hasn't been run. They can't find any
>old ones either.
>Daniel



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