Soapblox.net server hacked; Pam's House Blend, other sites affected
by: Pam Spaulding
Wed Jan 07, 2009 at 12:50:40 PM EST
http://pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do;jsessionid=EEF109EF71EAD68FE7C85AC50C205DE2?diaryId=8946(As you can see, the site is up, but I don't know for how long; you can read about the horror at Daily Kos).
Around 10PM last night, I found out
Soapblox.net, the service that hosts many of the state blogs, has been hacked. I reported it on a couple of listservs and put an email in to Soapblox.
Pam's House Blend,
RadicalRuss.net, American Liberalism,
BeThink.org are some of the sites affected, but many more went down later. I didn't go through down the whole Soapblox blogroll but it seems most of the state blogs were not affected. The hack is restricted to only one server, but once they got in, other servers were compromised.
I thought it might have been some random database problem at first (the Soapblox site mentions there were db problems with some sites on 1/5), but when I surfed over to Soapblox just now I saw this in the left-hand column (Wed. 3:39 AM ET):
