Blogger Hacked

WCityMike writes "Blogger has been severely hacked into, with users' passwords and e-mail addresses being replaced with 'hacx0redbyme' or 'hax0redbyme.' Apparently, attempts to change your password or other information do not succeed due to a major database problem. Blogger currently has no official news: its main page simply apologizes for being down for repairs and its status blog has no information, probably suffering from the same accessing problem as other blogs. In the meantime, discussion, information, and advice is appearing on the weblogs of Anil Dash and Tom Coates, as well as this QuickTopic thread. Glad I use another journaling service." We usually try to avoid "Site X Hacked!" stories, but since this affects so many people - and, heh-heh, they don't have anywhere else to talk about it - here you go.

Comments

Re:Missing option: BLOG definition

[saskboy]

A Blog is a online jounal or diary where lamers [like me] write their daily thoughts and routines so family, friends, strangers, and enemies can garner my life's work, and benefit from my ideas.
1. Write in blog
2. ...
3. Profit!

Re:A bit mean.

[redragon]

"...which is pretty much what bloggin is a substitute for..."

Of course, most dogs don't watch each other licking their genitals, it's "just one of those things." We however enjoy watching (reading) one another doing this.

Re:I don't really get blogs...

[PCM2]

Well, personally, I don't care if any of my readers know who I'm talking about. I really use a weblog to keep track of my state at any given time. This lets me look back and say "oh, that's what I was thinking." I mean, I don't care if I'm the only person in the world who reads my weblog.

If that were true, you'd keep a diary.

Re:I don't really get blogs...

[Surak]

I dunno. I personally read Wilwheaton.net, which is Wil Wheaton's personal blog. And Alan Cox's online journals. And a few others. What's Slashdot but a big, overgrown blog though really?