Posted on September 5, 2009 by by Valeri

So what really happened to the popular web designing and developing blog Smashing Magazine on the 2nd of September?

These who visited the popular site would have noticed that the site was down on the 2nd of September, Smashing Magazine is now reporting that they were victims of a hack attack. “Someone attempted to infiltrate our main server and  managed to manipulate some HTML data.

“As soon as we discovered what happened, we took our WordPress-powered server offline to make sure that no harm would be done to our website’s visitors. As far as we know, no machine of any of our readers has been compromised. ”

“The attack was “only” on our main blog server; our forum, job board, shop and RSS feed all run on separate servers, and the attackers didn’t gain access to any of them. And because our shop’s server does not store any credit card details or PayPal data, our customers’ private data could not be attacked. As we examined the problem, we kept our users updated through a makeshift maintenance page and our Twitter account, @smashingmag.”

A few weeks ago hackers launched an attack to the popular social networks Twitter and Facebook, so I wonder if they are now targeting popular blog sites?

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