Last night, somebody hacked into several of my web accounts, replacing the index file of this blog, the podcast site, and all of my personal and test blogs that I host through Dreamhost.

Here’s a portion of the announcement that I found in my inbox this morning:

We have detected what appears to be the exploit of a number of accounts belonging to DreamHost customers, and it appears that your account was one of those affected…

Our records indicate that only roughly 20% of the accounts accessed — less than 0.15% of the total accounts that we host — actually had any changes made to them. Most accounts were untouched.

My bad luck: I was part of the 0.15 percent.

Fortunately, the situation is not so grim. Though I’ll need to do some more research to confirm this, it appears that that the data itself for the sites have not been touched, and I’ve been able to restore the blogs by upgrading to the latest version of WordPress (2.2) and changing a password in my Dreamhost account.

Whew!

Time to go and back up my blogs.

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Note: thanks to Jack Hodgson for first alerting me that my sites were down.

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