&%@# You Hackers!

Ugh… today was a pain… I woke up and found an email that eBay locked my account because someone hacked my password.  Turns out I think I used that same password on lumpsofclay.com… no good….

I also got an email that some random email address got set as an “Owner” for lumpsofclay.com. They hacked the site and since they had access to the server, where all my sites live, they messed up almost all of them. They hijacked them with malicious code and had google re-index my sites, so now crazy links pop up when you search for them.

Lame… I spent a good chunk of the day on chat with my hosting company.  Luckily they were able to restore everything from backups.  I then promptly changed all the passwords for website accounts, databases, and other websites that may have used any of those passwords that got hacked.  I also updated WordPress and all plugins incase that was the attack vector, but I think it was an old password that may have been listed on some hacker sites from other websites getting hacked.

Bleh… I know I should never of done it, but it was easy to use the same password for multiple sites.  But no more!  No more using the same password for multiple sites! I’m going to start using password manager software!

It could have been worse… they could have got banking passwords (which were all different already).