Sometime during the time we were in Pennsylvania for Sharon’s mothers funeral, this web site was hacked. The problem has been fixed with an update to WordPress and the offending material has been removed, but not before Google dropped our site because of the links that the hackers added to our site.
I have sent in a request to Google to reconsider. They will reindex this site and without the offending links present, hopefully will return us to their search engine.
I want to apologize to those who may have seen the offending links. Nothing from our site was removed, that is nearly impossible to do. The problem was that comments that I normally have to approve, was approved without my knowledge, because of a glitch in the blog software. This has been fixed with an update to the software.
As far as the hackers are concerned, I hope for your sake, that we never cross paths in person.
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Sorry to hear about the hacking. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that this doesn’t happen at my blog. I certainly get a lot of junk comments that my filter catches. I use WordPress also.
John,
Sorry to hear about the problems you’ve encountered with your site. Even more sorry to hear about your loss. Peace.
Vern
Thanks David and Vern!
I advise anyone with Wordpress version 2.3 and below to update to the latest version 2.5. Version 2.3 is the one I had that got hacked.
John
I just found your site through the nature blog network, I’m glad I did, I enjoyed your bird photographs, I’m a fellow Mainer myself and I like finding other Maine bloggers. It’s unfortunate that you had to put up with unwanted material being put onto your site, hope it doesn’t happen again.
John;
Thank you for stopping by! Glad you found us.
You have beautiful pictures on your site too. I will be linking to your site on our sidebar.
John
Sorry for you loss.I wondered what was going on with your blog.-that is a shame. I’ve been lucky so far with that sort of thing but I know it can happen at any time.
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