Update—-MonticelloLive Website Hacked-Back On Line
Published by Joe Burgess July 4th, 2008 in Site.MonticelloLive was taken off-line Thursday afternoon due to an attack by computer hackers.
Contrary to the error message, there were no billing issues, simply vandalism.
MonticelloLive will be updating you with Friday’s news including 6 arrests, and a patriotic photo, with the story behind it. It’s still today’s news….today. It’s just a little later today than usual.
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MonticelloLive.com has just completed it’s best 2 months ever, with 84,000+ pageviews in May, and 83,000+ in June. I guess that makes Monticello worthy of “hacking”, but I really didn’t need that ”honor” today. (I was at the dentist at 8:30, and the dog pound at noon.)
I really do want to thank everyone who called to see what had happened, making sure MonticelloLive would be back, and even some offering funds. It really shows that MonticelloLive has become a part of a growing number of Monticello Lives.
For that, I thank you. It shows that the original phrase, “Monticello’s Community Website” still sums it up pretty well.
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I want to thank Joe for his patience with this down time. We’ve been in constant contact with the company I contract with to do webhosting:
In addition to this, we will be upgrading the MonticelloLive site.
You may see some downtime or “strange” looks over the next few days as we work to upgrade the site for your continued enjoyment and information.
hi joe,info on the hacker has been emailed to you,enjoy giving that person some payback
Glad your back Joe I can’t start my day without Monticello Live
Thought you might want to know that I was surfing the net last night when I encountered a message like the one on your website, suggesting your “friends” had been busy elsewhere yesterday…
Keep up the good work!