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Friday, December 26, 2008

My Website Hacked (Net4Domains Website Hosting sleazy security and service) 


Today when i visited my website i was SHOCKED to find that my webs
ite was hacked. 

Now the hacker mentions about Turkey and I do not remember any of my friends or foes living there.  Anyway Like a good netizen I tried to complain about this on phone to Net4Domains office here in Pune my hosting provider,  and (noone lifts phone its X Mas right!!!). Then I try  to log a issue in my Net4Domains account and even that refuses to work.  

"Database not available due to unspecified reasons" 





If the hacker has done it once he/she can do it again. Unless the security breach is
 fixed. 
As of now I have backup of my website (being a DBA teaches you at least that) and have reverted it for now.  Meanwhile if you see something silly please do ignore it. 


PS : 
1) Just now spoke to customer care who rudely tells me that I MUST have shar
ed my userid/password. It takes some time and lot of convincing before I make him realize that this is a shared server hosting and it must be affecting many others apart from just ME. Reluctantly he takes down my complaint. : (  Hope its not affecting many people. 

2) Doing a google search on the hackers message takes me to an Urdu website selling Attars (Perfumes) now what on earth has that got to do with ME.... !!!!! 

Update : 27 Dec 08 
Net4Domains resets my FTP password on its own. and asks me to get the new password after login to their site. 
They also tell me that whatever complaint I made 2 days ago "they are unable to find relevent details". (Pls note that this complaint was taken by their own staff on phone) 

and yes when I call them on number mentioned no-one picks up the call and the voice tells me Voice mail box is full.  Make whatever you  can make of it.  : |

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