BloggingZoom Hacked
January 24th, 2008 by CourtApparently some people don’t have anything productive to do with their time, because a pack of losers somewhere has hacked BloggingZoom and totally jacked up the server it’s on. Right now we’re working on getting the site back up, and during this time we would appreciate it if you guys could help us to spread the word. I’m sure there are people that have no idea what’s going on and we would like everyone to understand the situation.
The truth is that BloggingZoom is growing very quickly and that obviously poses a threat to quite a few different people. I’m not going to name any names but there are a few different groups and individuals that would stand to benefit if they could slow down the growth of the site.
Vic and I are both making investments that you guys would consider to be very large to ensure that BloggingZoom is here to stay - the site is growing and we will not be stopped by a bunch of weak hooligans that have to resort to this because they can’t come up with something that provides this level of benefit to bloggers.
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January 24th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
Let us know if you need any help…it certainly sucks that these things can happen.
January 24th, 2008 at 2:12 pm
Will do Mike! Thanks for your concern and for everything you have done for BZ.
January 24th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
Ahh man that sucks.
Hopefully you get it sorted it. Just faced my first hacking last week. What’s the world coming too man?
January 24th, 2008 at 2:21 pm
Ruck it’s just ridiculous. I guess if you get hacked you know you have some visibility right?
These guys seriously need to find a hobby or something…
January 24th, 2008 at 2:19 pm
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January 24th, 2008 at 2:21 pm
Lol true that! If only…
January 24th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
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January 24th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
I would have blogged about this by now, but my site is down, and curiously just after I commented here
Coincidences suck
January 24th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
Lol what a day Mike.
January 24th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
I think it’s hilarious. After threatening to “kill my site” Vic’s site gets hacked. LMAO and on top of that, BloggerUnleashed doesn’t work either…
January 24th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
Hey Ethan at least we have something the people know about.
January 24th, 2008 at 7:40 pm
Who’s we? You and Vic? Apparently Vic doesn’t have anything as of right now. I still don’t know what it is that you have though…
January 24th, 2008 at 8:13 pm
If I don’t have anything, what are you doing commenting on my site? What are you doing at my site in the first place Einstein?
January 24th, 2008 at 8:16 pm
He’s trolling Court…
Same guy tried this with Vic - Vic just deleted him to stop any traffic to his site.
January 24th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
It’s horrible to hear this Court. I just recently got into using BZ.
If you or Vic need any help, just let us know.
Good luck with it. I know that kind of stuff is a pain.
January 24th, 2008 at 2:39 pm
Hey Justin don’t worry. BZ will be back soon and it will be better than ever. I think everyone will like some of the changes that we have coming.
January 24th, 2008 at 2:46 pm
Justin, you can by spreading the word by doing a short post like I did!
Too bad, I had a funny video(HD-DVD) that was seen 2500+ with almost 1500 views just today.I already had 15 zoom and would had broke records.
The Downfall of HD-DVD(Funny Video)
I know Vic seen it and laugh.
January 24th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
That really pisses me off. Get a life Hackers!
I was in the middle of using Vic’s site a couple of hours ago and it went down to. Track em down Court!
January 24th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
Court let me know how I can help, I will do so with any means you deem necessary.
January 24th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
I’m a feed reader and have never posted here but i just wanted to say how sorry I am that someone did that to you. I submitted several posts to BZ in the last few weeks and am really impressed with the community feel of the place. Keep up the good work Courtney and don’t let the trolls get you down.
January 24th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
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January 24th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
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January 24th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
Had a feeling you guys were attacked - I put a blurb on my latest post to help alert folks.
It’s a pain in the ass Court but it does tell you you’re making waves when crap like this happens.
Hope you’re up and running soon.
ps. Did you get my message on MBL? Just making sure.
January 24th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
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January 24th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
Court, I have a feeling that it will be a long time before those “hackers” will do something like that again.
I have a feeling that Vic and you are “huntin wabbits”!
Hope the sites are back up soon!
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January 24th, 2008 at 4:48 pm
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January 24th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
That sucks. Sorry to hear about it.
January 24th, 2008 at 5:43 pm
Court,
So sorry to hear that - what a pain. Glad to see that you are remaining so positive. Keep us posted on the developments and let us know what we can do. I will write about it as well.
January 24th, 2008 at 5:53 pm
How can anyone seriously protect themselves from this sort of thing? I know hackers can get into all sorts of sites including governments’.
January 24th, 2008 at 6:02 pm
Court,
Hang in there. It’s really nasty of someone to do this. It’s speak a lot of your character to remain so calm and yet determined in your posts about this event.
January 24th, 2008 at 6:18 pm
I agree, if this happened to me I would lose it. I can’t wait to see Vics post on the subject, I bet it won’t be as calm.
January 25th, 2008 at 8:12 pm
Once Vic starts posting again we might see some words on his post that we didn’t even know existed!
January 24th, 2008 at 6:31 pm
What the $@%&? Why do people spend their days doing crap like this when there are so many other computer-based problems in the world that can be tackled?
Seriously … some hackers need to invest their skills in something useful like plugging security holes in Windows, OSX and Oracle databases. Some of these people clearly have the skills
January 24th, 2008 at 6:42 pm
Sorry this had to happen, Court. It’s just idiotic. Hope it all gets sorted out soon!
January 24th, 2008 at 6:44 pm
Has Vic’s blog been hacked again as well? Couldn’t access his blog too.
So sorry to hear about this. It was only yesterday that I posted in Vic’s blog that I could not do any submissions for my blog to BZ. Maybe this was the reason.
January 24th, 2008 at 7:52 pm
very sorry to hear that court, hope you can work out with this problem.
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January 24th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
Hi Court,
Sorry to hear, I just blogged about this too to help tell others. Hopefully you get it sorted soon and shame on those idiots who have nothing better to do than hack others.
January 24th, 2008 at 9:29 pm
Hi,
Do you think e-mails, passwords ‘n such are still secure?
January 24th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
Ben no worries all good could not hack site so they destroyed server.
January 24th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
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January 24th, 2008 at 11:12 pm
This may or may not be related, but I had a heck of a time in the last three days getting my ISP to let me see either Bloggingzoom or Blogger Unleashed. I spent a couple hours on the phone with tech guys to get them to admit there was some sort of unusual problem at the ISP which let me surf anything but your sites. It seems somehow someone set it so the DNS was not recognized by certain satellites which connect me in Western Canada to the internet. Interestingly enough, only those two sites were unavailable. I could get to any other site I tried or they tried, and this makes me suspect that it’s no coincidence. I don’t know how you would check it out though.
January 25th, 2008 at 3:05 am
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January 25th, 2008 at 3:55 am
That’s awful! How mailicious.
January 25th, 2008 at 4:06 am
hackers can do something good, like “killing” scientology, but mostly they are bad
January 25th, 2008 at 6:04 am
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January 25th, 2008 at 7:21 am
Damn, I’m sorry to hear that. I hope you’ll get the problem sorted out ASAP. Still, I guess it’s better to find out sooner rather than later, if there are security problems with the server.
January 25th, 2008 at 7:54 am
Will spread the word. Sorry this happened… people are punks
January 25th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
Keep us updated I would like to know what happens, if you catch these people who did this.
January 25th, 2008 at 3:14 pm
That sucks hope you get everything back up and running. Even though I’ve stopped using the service due to some issues I hate to see a great resource for bloggers get targeted.
January 25th, 2008 at 9:58 pm
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January 26th, 2008 at 3:26 am
Are Vic’s sites down again? BZ is up though…
January 26th, 2008 at 4:10 am
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January 26th, 2008 at 8:46 am
If the hacker/s need proof of what impact their deed has had and what it would do in the future for BZ, this blog should be enough. I hope the lowlife is reading this post and the comments.
January 26th, 2008 at 8:57 am
The upside, if I can call that, is that it happen now and not in 6 months when it will be much bigger. For now, it’s still small but it was a pain in the butt for us and mostly for Court/Vic.
We also got a new theme/plugin(nice btw) sooner than expected perhaps
Too bad, I had a spike in traffic and it could had introduced BZ to a lot more people.
January 26th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
No idea if there is one out there yet, but I just finished making my first firefox addon - A BloggingZoom addon =P
January 26th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
That really sucks man. It seems it’s up and running now though. Minor setback.