WorldLee

It appears that while I was gone over the weekend, having a very very dramatic Friday and re-self-discovery on Saturday and Sunday, my website WorldLee.com was hacked!

I spent the better part of Sunday evening and some time at work today going through and cleaning up the mess, and there’s still no guarantee that things are as they were (I did everything short of reinstalling everything from protected backups.)

The long and the short of it is, several months ago I was naive enough to have one password for all my internet sites. I thought, like most, that if I had a secure password I shouldn’t have to memorize dozens of different passwords. Unfortunately, I was tricked into putting my MySpace information onto a bogus page, and from there the hackers got into my Yahoo! mail account and started spamming people. Worse, they got into my PayPal account and tried to transfer several hundreds of dollars into their own personal bank account.

I don’t suppose the law ever got up with them, I thought the issue had been resolved and I had, like a good boy, changed all my passwords to a new, constantly changing and very random password choice. No one should have been able to hack my passwords again. But guess which password I forgot to change? That’s right, because I never actually type in a password for my FTP account, I forgot to change it. Welp, I guess those people took their revenge by using that password to compromise my site. Hopefully they didn’t get a hold of any of my other passwords, because if they did, they’d have access to…. well, just my site… since I’ve changed everything else to something different.

Let this be a warning to you! Password theft is real… be careful where you put it.