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Posted By: Bluto In Response To: Hacker questions- Can someone go into (Carla Ball)
Saturday, 18 March 2006, at 2:37 p.m.
> your website and change things without your password. Earhtlink assurred
> me no they can't, I have shared my password with no one and the day after
> I posted the message about my SEO success 2 of 5 pages on my site were
> changed.
That may just be coincidence. But then, I have no clue how Earthlink free web space works so I have no clue if it is possible to easily hack into someone's free Earthlink space. But rest assured that Earthlink would never admit that to you if it were possible. That would make them look like a very insecure ISP and word get's around. The ISP business is very competitive these days. Appearing as an insecure ISP is not a good thing.
But this is the reason why you need to get a paid hosting account. Not that your site cannot get hacked with a paid account, but you have much more security and control with a paid hosting account. Had you had a paid hosting account you could have looked in your logs to try to figure out the IP address of the person who may have possibly hacked your site. I doubt you can do that with Earthlink free space.
Backups are necessary in the digital world. Everything can be here today and gone tomorrow. Backup, backup, backup.
Also, realize that it may not be that your site was hacked into. It could have been something screwy that happened on Earthlink's end. Again, they may never admit to something like that. You may never know.
> My page rank was 4/10 now it is 0/10. Anyone have any clues?
Sorry to hear that but it should not be hard to regain your PR and also to get ranked again for the terms you were ranking for.
Consider it a lesson learned the hard way. There are 3 lessons here....
Lesson #1: Never rely on free hosting for a business site.
Lesson #2: If you did get hacked as a result of professing your success, just goes to show you you cannot trust people in the digital world because there are a lot of jealous folks out there that love to see other people's successes crumble. Some things need to be kept on the DL.
Lesson #3: Backup all your stuff all the time.
I see your site is back up, though. That shows that you are not about to let this one mishap slow you down. That's a good thing.
Bluto
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