16 May 2008

GoStats Website Defaced

Weird things keep happening more often around me.. -_-"


Well, other than just going through DC.com website and other blogspot sites, I got some free time to go to GoStats website to see my traffic updates.. When the page finished loading, I got a huge shock as the website wasn't what it was supposed to be..

Somehow, the website got defaced by a hacker and I was somehow caught in the action between the admin of GoStat and the hacker..

As I kept refreshing the page, the website kept alternating between when it is defaced and normal mode..


The best thing about this defacement is this:



This hacker must be a bold person to say do such thing.. Either that or this is just a network security test or smtg else..


One of the GoStats crew replied to this and here is what he said:

Richard here from GoStats, the "hacker" message is merely a developer written error message when bad data is passed to the chart. In this case, the XML wasn't loading properly so no data was being passed to the chart image. You can double check this by loading an empty graph:
http://gostats.com/lines3d.png


Either way, this is abit annoying to not be taken noticed.. Finally everything was back to normal a few minutes later..

Anyway, good job GoStats for taking care of the problem quickly.. ^^

2 comments:

  1. Anonymous7:56 AM

    Hi,

    Richard here from GoStats, the "hacker" message is merely a developer written error message when bad data is passed to the chart. In this case, the XML wasn't loading properly so no data was being passed to the chart image. You can double check this by loading an empty graph:
    http://gostats.com/lines3d.png

    If you have any further questions, please let me know.

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  2. @ anonymous: Ouh.. Haha.. My bad.. Anyway, thanks for the information.. ^^

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