fixed mostly: off topic: my domain was hacked
JimP
🖼️ 280 images Cartographer
3 unknown people, different parts of the world, logged into my cpanel which controls my domain, this morning.
When you visit my websites, please let me know if you spot anything unusual.
Thanks.
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I hope you have managed to secure it since then, Jim.
Changed my password. Let the other folks there know.
I can no longer log into my domain, so I don't know what is going on, but avoid going there.
Who would you go to for a new password, or are you the administrator?
I'm the owner. They changed my contact email from me to someone else. Cpanel is still notifying me.
Can you get any help for this?
I emailed my web host contact.
So it's not lost forever. That's good. I hope they haven't damaged it when you get back to it.
Let us hope so, but if they cannot convince me that cpanel cannot be hack again, I wont put my sites back up there. Over a decade worth of work, but I"m not going to tolerate this.
I do have backups. And I'll continue to post maps here.
I got word problems are spreading. My web host hasn't contacted me. Likely busy.
The web host is working on resolving this.
Fingers crossed. Methinks I have a web site back.
I would strongly urge you to delete absolutely everything and reload it from scratch. Odd are good that the hijack was to have it distribute malware, and anything short of a complete wipe will be iffy on finding anything that shouldn't be there.
Looking at doing that.
No warnings now on my web sites now; however, please be careful as I haven't had the time to replace anything. If they need replacing.
Crestar site is still bad.
All is well.
Traveller site has no articles, just the entrance page. Oh well. Maps are still there as far as I can tell.
I'll check more as I have time.
Some sites, nothing there. I redid them. Others checked by my web host. I had to reinstall the cms on two. I have backups. No problem.
Well, I have lots of articles to re-type on three sites. Maps are still there.
I had to reinstall 3 sites, luckily 2 were small. But my Traveller site had no posts. 2414 posts to put back. Whew.
I'll finish checking everything on Monday and Tuesday. I'll get the dungeon done to.
If someone could come up with a made area map, I'll add this and a couple of levels to it.
One more bad site, easily fixed.
All working, just have to add more articles to those sites where they disappeared.