I got pw0ned

Last night I checked this site from my Wii browser. I found that instead of my rotating photo menu and witty witty words, my website was reduced to a blank green screen. Nothing was visible. I was hitting the site, but all was not right in Cassytown.

This morning I checked again in the hope that something I did not understand would correct itself, and my site would be restored. No such luck. Same green screen, same mysterious lack of anything not green. I checked the html source and found that along with my usual code, there was a large block of links hidden at the bottom of the page. They were clumped together, just sitting there looking at me with ugly, beady eyes.

Shock. Horror. Someone had hacked my site.

My site. My little site that gets 10,000 hits a month*. Why on God's green internet would you hack my site? These are dark times indeed. I know other people get spammed, and hacked, but this is my website. I still feel violated, like someone was touching my code.

I thought briefly that maybe Billy Mitchell had read my review of King of Kong, didn't take kindly to the cracks about his hair, and decided to use his awesome geek powers to shut me down. That would be kind of cool, actually. "Midnight Herring: We really pissed off Billy Mitchell! Bookmark us today!". But no. It is only a dream to think I could have that effect on such a giant of videogames and hot sauce. My hacker was probably just a regular old spam bot that found a new sucker with a blog.

So to conclude what is, sadly, the most excitement my little page has ever seen, I am now in the process of contacting my server and rebooting the site. Will I be shut down again? Maybe it's not a hacker - maybe it's THE MAN and I've stumbled upon some secret about... movies or Nintendo... that he doesn't want you to know. Trust no one. The truth is out there.

Peace out for now. I'm gonna be back and bigger than ever in 2008. No amount of hacking can keep me down! Unless of course they change my password. Then I'm screwed.

Merry Christmas! Happy holidays everyone!

*I know, I was as shocked as you to find my hits were that high. One day maybe I can say with certainty that at least 50 people read my blog intentionally instead of landing on my site after a search for late night fishing. Live the dream Cassandra! Live the dream!