Hacked
November 12, 2009 by: admin
On Monday I spotted a strange issue with Blogstorm that was causing the blog to be displayed 4 inches down the page. I suspected it was a browser issue or some kind of hack but the source code was totally clean and it was displaying the same in multiple browsers which was strange.
After some investigation by one of our developers yesterday it turned out that the JavaScript file which powers the tab section on the right hand side of the blog had been hacked and an iframe inserted in the header. Luckily the iframe source was giving a 404 error otherwise my blog would probably have been flagged as a malware site and started redirecting all visitors to somewhere else.
We are still not sure how the hacker got into the blog but I am very careful to only use popular plugins and always update all plugins and Wordpress as soon as new versions come out.
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Hacked
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