Question for MyHobbySite website owners

[Paganec]

Some asshole thought it'd be funny to hijack every MHS website. So, every site got locked up. You couldn't even get in as an administrator. There was text written on the screen for each site saying something about the Muslims or something. Plus, any and all screenshots or cover art got wiped out. So, if you'd spent 100's of hours loading screenshots for 1000's of shows, unless you were smart enough to back it all up (I wasn't), it was all gone and you'd have to start all over again. Everything was back up and running in a few weeks' time. It's not something I'd like to go through again.

Not every site. Only dreamhost users suffered. Their CMS is cool, but it seems they have a huge problem with their own data privacy. Yesterday I got a message from them, it looks like everyone has to change login/password again, cuz they think this data was stolen.

[deadone]

yeah mine was hacked as well, luckily enough i had a backup of my sql and my whole site was saved on my external drive as i always do anyway.


remember though when backing up your screenshots using ftp, it might take some time depending on how many screenshots you have added.
mine was huge and i didnt even have screens for every show