My server was the victim of an exploit a few days ago. My hosting company gave me the bad news as soon as they discovered what had happened, but they, um, didn't tell me just how bad it was. I just went to check a few minutes ago and am, um, appalled.
Yes, I mostly kept backups. Mostly. I should have been better about it, I know. I know. But I lived in NYC for 5 years and never got mugged, so I suppose I felt a little invulnerable.
It's not so much that every single HTML page has been overwritten -- I can deal with that. Okay, alright, now they're some badass computer geeks. Great. It's that I've even lost Illustrator files. I mean, they could have just stuck to the HTML files and gotten the point across just fine.
I wish I could report this to the cops or something. I need closure of some sort.
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