We’ve Been Hacked, But We’re Back (Maybe)

May 29th, 2013 by Zachary Shahan

You may have noticed some weirdness on CleanTechnica the past couple days — not publishing for long periods of time, then publishing a bunch of articles in a spurt. The story is, we were hacked. Since Monday morning/afternoon, our team hasn’t been able to log in to the backend (where we write and publish articles). We haven’t even been able to access the login pages. Actually, this happened across our network (Important Media) and on other multi-site WordPress installs across the interwebs.

Some of our writers got in for a very brief time yesterday somehow, and our host has now found some of us a back way in.

So, for now, we hope we are back to publishing like normal. But if the hacking continues or picks up without our security forces finding a solution, we may disappear for a brief while — hopefully not!

Apologies, but believe us, we’ve been stressing about this and we’ve got teams of tech guys and girls working on it. And, luckily, we’ve been able to write a bit on other sites and are reposting those articles now to catch you all up!

Wish us luck.

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http://www.energyquicksand.com/ Edward Kerr

Zach,

I was concerned as some of my comments had been deleted and that is not usual. It just shows that someone is really concerned about preventing clean energy from becoming a reality and the methods that they will stoop to in an effort to support a failed and wrong agenda. Humanity simply must find a way to quit burning fossil fuels or we will perish.
Glad that you are on to them and I hope that you are able to identify these people if possible.
Ed
- http://zacharyshahan.com/ Zachary Shahan
  
  Hmm, didn’t realize it was affecting comments…
  
  It seems the hack attack was quite broad, not specifically targeted at us. But who knows…
- Bob_Wallace
  
  I took one of your comments down as it was a response to someone who was kicked off the site. When his comments were taken down your comment made no sense – no context. You should have gotten notice about that.
  
  I checked the “Deleted” file and that’s the only comment from you in it.
  
  Sometimes Disqus fails to get comments to post. I had one last week. It seems to be rare or maybe it’s happening more than I realize.
  - http://www.energyquicksand.com/ Edward Kerr
    
    Bob,
    Now it makes sense. I had returned to the threat to edit the comment and was surprised (but not too) to find it gone. Though my sentiments were right my failure to maintain decorum was inappropriate and I wanted to amend that. I was in a foul mood at the time of writing my comment but that is no excuse.
    
    However, when one can see what’s coming in the not too distant future because of our failure to act quickly and decisively to address the “energy issue” and it’s cousin “climate change” it’s almost too difficult to be polite to people who troll positive sites like Clean Technica and make inane comments. Please forgive my laps of courtesy.
    Ed
Amber

May the Cleantech Angels be with your tech team and security
forces.
- http://zacharyshahan.com/ Zachary Shahan
  
  Thanks.
Ross

I was beginning to wonder about the reduced activity but imagining it was something more interesting than a hacker attack diverting your attention. Good luck fending them off.
- http://zacharyshahan.com/ Zachary Shahan
  
  Ha, thanks. Nice new pic.