Hacked

Comments Posted on Nov 26, 2009 Last Updated Jun 19, 2010 Posted by administrator

Hacked

On the 6th May 2010 the Kelsborrow webiste was the victim of a successful hack attempt.

The hackers/crackers didn't take anything from the site, it appears that after talking with the hosting company that they just did a server sweep and found an exploit in one of the scripts this site runs. The exploit was fixed within less than 2 hours and the site then went live again.

It then appears that the hackers/crackers took this as some kind of challenge and decided to take the site down again, which they did, still they did not take anything from the site or even deface it, but as the site was still vulnerable, I decided to take the site down for a longer period of time whilst I made the site secure. These hacks can be quite common especially if a site is running 3rd party scripts which we were. Needless to say the site is now secure, the only thing we lost was time.

The Kelsborrow website doesn't hold payment information on its own servers those details are handled by PayPal which uses encryption to secure its services Email addresses stored on this site are also masked from internet crawlers and spiders, so your details were and have always been safe.

regards

Jon