Wednesday, January 07, 2009

Pam's House Blend Has Been Hacked

Friend of MadProfessah.com, Pam's House Blend, who is nominated for Best LGBT Blog of the Year, has been hacked and er site is currently down, because a server at soapblox.net has been hacked.

She sent the following email to fellow LGBT bloggers:


Pam's House Blend, RadicalRuss.net, American Liberalism, BeThink.org are some of the sites affected. I haven't gone down the whole Soapblox blogroll yet, so far it seems the state blogs were not affected; I assume the hack is restricted to only one server.I thought it might have been some random database problem at first (the Soapblox site mentions there were db problems with some sites on 1/5), but when I surfed over to Soapblox just now I saw this in the left-hand column (Wed. 3:39 AM ET):
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y49/pspauld/BlogPix/soapblox.jpg
Top of Soapblox's front page:http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y49/pspauld/BlogPix/soapblox2.jpg"

The AltaVista Group (http://www.astalavista.com/)" takes credit, according to Soapblox's front page, leaving the message:

SoapBlox...destroying online communities...v1.0 RC1


This is horrible news for the progressive blogger community. Many other progressive sites, as Pam's email mentions are also on the soapblox.net servers and they will all now have to be moved. It's not clear if archives of the blogs will be able to be saved.

UPDATE 3:59 PM PST
Pam's site is back up, but she doesn't know for how long. It looks like she will be able to access her three years of archives.

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