Re: Hackers

Well Sue,
I feel for you.  My ISP not too long ago had a hacker get in
and completely delete not only sites, but what ever they did, was also
damaging hardware and effected the servers backup tapes.  They
blamed it on someone having access to their servers. Meaning
someone who had had an account there and was not a happy
person, or a friend of someone's that was given the password or got access
to
the password into the system.

Our sites were down for a week while they rebuilt a new server
and had to reinstall all software and then load the back ups they had.
Unfortunately some of the back ups were destroyed and the owners
of the sites didn't have back ups either.  So, I advise that you 'KNOW"
who has passwords, and keep a record.  Change it often, just in case
one of those people gives it to a friend.  And as you have done keep
a back up of the site.

Don't leave the password in a little book called passwords, and I would
certainly investigate how it happened.  If it only involved your website
then
someone who has or gained access to you password did it, and you certainly
don't want it happening again.
Good Luck
Nancy

> Got to work this morning to find that the public html directory of our
> website had been completely cleaned out overnight. The lovely
neighbourhood
> hackers had saved me the task of getting rid of all the files we're not
> using any more. You can imagine my joy on a Monday morning.
>
> Our ISP's advice amounted to 'change your password', which we've obviously
> done - and back up back up and back up again, which I had also done - but
is
> there anything else I can do to stop these ****s  having another go?

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