Number six on our list of SFB’s Greatest Things of 2010 is “SFB Gets Hacked.”
Earlier this year, our site was down for a few days after being hacked into and having our index pages changed to the home screen of a Turkish hacker. Upon further review, it seems that a lot of sites hosted by GoDaddy were hacked the same day by this person. So it wasn’t really something that we did, e.g. easy password, but rather something that GoDaddy didn’t do to secure their systems.
We were lucky that the hacker did not delete all the files on our server, that I was able to quickly restore the home page in all its former glory, make fun of the hacker, and laugh about it during our Greatest Things of 2010 countdown.