Jack ‘n Tracie

Due to some freak who hacked the photos section of this site, the photos sections has been removed. The script that displayed them, all the photos, etc, are gone. I don’t have time to maintain it anyway. If I have any cool photos to share, I’ll just upload them to an entry here…

I have the photos still.. I just do not have them online anymore.

Before getting upset about the SCA photos and such disappearing, please understand that I was SERIOUSLY hacked and SERIOUSLY exploited. Our domain is now blocked by several ISP’s, spamcop, etc. The hack involved an exploit that allowed someone to upload a paypal and email scam. Basically an email went out to thousands upon thousands of people telling them their paypal account needed update. They were directed to THIS site to provide their information. That information was then collected and sent to some freak stealing identies. If you received such an email my sincere apologies.

I’m not 100% sure which script was used to exploit my account. But I’m 90% sure it was Coppermine.. the script that the photos were maintained and displayed with. I did not update it to the latest secure version fast enough.

Right now I’m dealing with 15,309 bounce back messages. That’s right.. at least 15,300 people were emailed from MY account with this scam.. and didn’t have valid email addresses. Who know how many emails were successfully delivered.

Fortunately someone who got such an email reported it to the web host and action was taken immediately. My account was suspended within less than 24 hours after being exploited.. but that’s long enough apparently.

As soon as I removed the exploits, and unsuspended the account, I started getting hits for people looking for the paypal folder that was created. Not good!

I deal with this on a regular basis from the other end. I work for the web host.. so I deal with customers who have this happen to them. So it’s pretty embarrassing to have it happen to me. The web host did nothing wrong.. it was my own fault for not keeping my scripts on this account up to date.

Let this be a lesson to anyone who maintains a website: keep it updated and keep it secure. You don’t want your domain associated with paypal scams!!

FYI: I’ll be taking Kirianna.com down as well. I don’t have time to maintain two websites. The domain will be parked on this account to resolve here.

My apologies for any inconvenience.