Found out my website has been hacked into the other day.
Guess that explains why I can't log in most of the time.
But eventually I did get in and when I checked the visitors stats, there was something like a 1000% surge in traffic overnight. Well I didn't do the math but it sure jumped over 100 single visitor per day when I average about 10 usually.
The regular pages are untouched at the moment. They just put their stuff in some far out subfolders... which I manage to put in the trash for now. Changed a few links. Bingo, I got thousands of 404 page views since and traffic is back to normal (minus those hits on fake pages that don't exist anymore).
My only hope is that my providers will manage to fix this.
Or at least that whoever did this in the first place won't notice my little 'switcharoo' and retaliate on the rest of the website. Obviously they'll notice I have no clue about anything html and whatnot (I'm still amazed I managed to built one, and even get some good comments about its design) and might decide to have a little fun with me. One of the referers I checked out had their frontpage totally rebuilt with massive logos saying 'hacked by so and so'. I didn't read the whole thing, but scrolled down to the bottom of the page, where it said 'YOU SHOULD NOT HAVE MESSED WITH US, ISLAM IS THE TRUE FAITH', then followed by something in Arabic which I think is probably the usual 'God is great'. Anyway, seriously, like, what the fuck?
I checked out some of the bizarre linking-thing they put in there. Some blogs were hacked into as well, older entries becoming massive lists of random subjects linking to what I presume to be more websites that were hacked into. I managed to find one of the 'subjects' linking to my website... it said WITHDRAWAL FROM MORPHINE.
I thought that was hilarious.
In other news, I'll be doing some fixing on the 'Stills from my daily job', make it a little more interesting (and logical) to watch. Seems the guys here at AnD haven't thought of a way to re-order your pictures.
Or maybe I'm just an idiot who didn't notice the magic button for this. Let me know if that's the case, and do mention where's that button, not just the fact I'm a complete idiot, please.
Traffic graphs before 'the hack kicked in', during, and after my switcharoo...