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iMedia Connection Hacked – What’s Your Backup Plan?
The popular iMedia Connection site apparently has been hacked based on the message seen below. None on the site is functioning. It does appear they have started to publish static articles so they can continue to get content online. How much income are they losing because the site is down?
I have emailed the staff to see if I can find out more as to what happened but it clearly was a major hit as the site has been down over 24 hours.
I posted this quick message to give ya’all a reminder that this is a great time to backup your blog content. I backup my sites daily and put the backups in multiple locations. The interesting thing I’ve learned since the Magnolia outage is that it’s not good enough just to have a backup. You must actually test the backup on a regular basis to verify that if the need should ever arise, you can actually use the backup!
How are you backing up your blog content? Are you?
I backup my blog each night when I make a post – about 2-3x a week. But I have never thought about how to check the backup – do you have any help on testing it?
Do you have any suggestions on how to back up your blog….free of charge?
Hi Allen,
Thank you for the article. I’m very happy to say our site was restored to normalcy over the weekend. Hopefully this will be a cautionary tale for everyone that hackers are alive and well. I hope you will continue to read iMedia’s newsletter and visit our site, which is healthier than ever.
Gretchen Hyman
Executive Editor, iMedia Connection
Thanks Gretchen – you might post a recap of what happened, how you resolved it and steps to make sure it doesn’t happen again. This way others can learn…
Basically what happened is a hacker infected our site with some pretty nasty malware. What it did was attempt to spread viruses to people visiting our site. If you visited our site last week, we strongly recommend you run a virus scan on your computer, especially if you recall downloading anything.
Our fabulously capable IT team has since cleaned it up and the site is completely user-friendly now.
Here are a few anti-virus tools we highly recommend:
http://www.kaspersky.com/
http://www.bitdefender.com/
http://www.webroot.com