Can anybody explain to me (and eveyone) why people hack. See my story

Man thats harsh! Sorry to hear that you got hit so bad! I hope Karma really does exist and the scumbag gets dragged into the Nile by a croc and slowly eaten over the space of a week or so.

You don't take back ups? I guess you will start.

You weren't specifically targeted. It was just a mass hack attempt... maybe for ego, notoriety, a test to prove themselves in inner circles. Don't take it personally, but just make sure you back up your stuff.

Ey man, sorry to hear about that...

Its always a b*tch.

I dont understand why people just hack stuff for no apparent reason, like with what happened to you. I can see the view point where they hack your system and install a virus scanning software and convince you to buy it in order to fix the virus on your computer, which never really gets fixed and just keeps charging you money. Thats kind of genius in a sense.

Or perhaps the type of virus hack from Office Space where it takes all the rounded cents from each dollar, literally like 10ths of a cent, over millions of accounts, and deposits them into your account. Again, a stroke of brilliance.

But to just hack and destroy?

I dont get it man, if you're that good (which hacking a WP site isnt really that good at all) then why not learn how to add some value to the world and improve the lives of others?

Maybe one day they will learn...

Anything I can do to help you out man?

Seriously, I feel your pain.

What are they thinking about? 10 of my sites were hacked by some Kuwait dude, and left a page to bragg about. COOL STORY, no one cares how good you guys are - rather, why don't you put it into a good way and make some money?

Useless.

Luckily, I only had to replace back all my index pages.

Maybe you stepped on someone's toes and they had connections.

I understand your pain, however your bizarre threats make it appear as if you just want to use your experience as a reason to spew racist statements. If that's your regular attitude, it might explain why you got hacked. Hackers don't hack for the hell of it. They have reasons, and some of those reasons are noble.

That's soo sad. My sites too have been hacked
multiple times, but the only thing that prevented
me from going mad is my BACKUP!

I have setup backups of each and every files on my
server to Dropbox.

Whatever the reason this person attacked you is, all you can do right now it seems is learn from it and take precautions to ensure that you can restore any future damage, i.e. backup your work. I guess I don't need to tell you that at this stage though!

There aren't actually a whole lot of different reasons to destroy someone else's success. Jealousy is a big one. Too many people get angry at others due to jealousy of their success. When you're doing well for yourself, others want what you have. They can't handle it and have to do damage to feel better. When people hack for this reason, I think they have convinced themselves that they're doing it because it's cool or funny or impressive. It's clearly not.

What ERPLeadsWriter said is very true. Hackers, like the one that hacked you, do not have healthy morals and ethics. They remind me of racist YouTube commenters. They are incredibly depraved, and while they're sat behind their keyboards acting like they're higher than everyone else, they are in fact incapable of actually fitting into society. It's pretty tragic really.

Jeez, that's a big blow. Glad to hear you're taking it on the chin and re-building -- a lot of people would just give up.

One of my sites was hacked a couple of years ago. They didn't delete anything -- instead they added malicious code that attempted to infect visitors with a virus/trojan of some kind.

I only realized it was happening when my site was displayed with a warning on Google's results. Hired a guy to fix it and it was sorted in no time. Then I changed all my hosting passwords.

I think most hackers are motivated by ego. They hang around in forums boasting of their latest 'achievement'. They have absolutely no interest in the consequences of their actions. Many of them see themselves as some sort of rebel warriors kicking against the machine. The reality is, the majority of their victims are just ordinary folk.

Anyway, good luck getting everything back together -- and don't forget to back it all up :-)

Michael

Gee that's really bad, especially after all your hard work, I thought backing up all your work was common knowledge??
At least you had the financial resources to start again, would not be nice at all for the newbie, just starting out in their IM career.

I'm so sorry to hear!!!
You must have had some great sites to make them target you!!

Sorry to hear that. I empathize with you as my site was hacked not too long ago (it meant that my other 7 were hacked too!) Didn't leave much damage as hostgator managed to resolve it, but still makes me wonder why they (hackers) do it!

I consider these hackers as among of the most pathetic people here on earth. Why? it's because they are not normal people at least in my own opinion.

Once they could hack a website, they make it as their achievement.

Well, this is simply the reality. There will always be a good and evil.

A lesson that is truly worth learning, backing up is vital.

Good luck to you, mate.

Sincerely,
Louie Tugas

I would consider changing hosts to a host that does backups. I backup my important sites, but Hostgator will have a backup of it also.

Control over your life.

When a hacker deletes all your stuff, you have to go put it all back.

In fact, you will probably waste a lot of your time and energy trying to keep hackers out of your system in the future, too.

That's what they want. They can't create anything of any real value themselves, so they're angry at people who can, and actively try to waste those people's time.

What kind of host doesn't have backups? I thought that was a pretty basic feature.

You should have had backups yourself as well, especially for sites which you are heavily invested and/or bring in revenue, so that just in case all the backups that the host had don't work or are also hacked, you can upload the sites yourself.

I make periodic backups for my most important sites, and leave a copy on the server, and also download a copy to my hard drive, then send a copy to my portable hard drive as well.

I had several sites hacked recently, but my host took care of restoring them for me.

Most of us with a bunch of sites have been hacked at some point. Most of the hackers like you described have the same motives that cause a kid to graffiti on a wall. It's a thrill for them because they can. Like a status.

Most of the time, the damage is minimal, but annoying.

You can take some simple steps to reduce the likelihood of being hacked and by all means, always back up your major projects. Surely you had some of the stuff on your hard drive???

Sorry that happened to you.

All I'm trying to say is that hackers blow goats,,, Is that bad?

Egyptian? Sandy basta*ds.

Do daily automated back-up, reliable hosting and keep your webs up-to-date, then laugh into their faces, while they try to hack again and fail. You get the money, they only get a sad face. That's win-win scenario to me.

Good luck with that.

A few months ago one of my AdSense sites was hacked. The funny part is that it was only making a few dollars per month. The downside is that my whole web hosting was suspended due to the hacking and all other sites on that account were lost as well.

I am also suspicious that they were not specifically targeting my site. Don't know if it is because my host's vulnerability.

Nick Chou

Let me say thank you to everyone personally,, Thank you all.

Now,, this has been great for the healing and learning process for me and I hope that maybe newbies get something outta this too,, or anybody for that matter.
Remember to back up your shi*! Lesson learned.

Hackers = 1
Rob X = 0

But lets get back to this "arguement". Actually, I don't know where the arguement part started. I guess I offended someone by saying mean things.

I said in response to relies;
I hope a Pyramid falls on their head.
I hope their moms get aids to the mouth. (and die slowly)
And I said another guys hacker and mine should get together and butt hack each other.

Now,,, where is the racism? And who the hell turned this into a race thing anyway. I mean,, it's clearly an aids issue, (sheesh,, get it right) and a Pyramid issue,, or is it a butt thing? You funny guys,,,, saying i'm obsessed with the butt thing,,, funny,, and I thank you for being funny!

That's what I was trying to do,,, be funny! To relieve my heartache and let my brain take a break from thinking how I'd love to get my hands on that assbag,, or,, assbags. Like I said,, I don't care about who did it,, what country or nationality,,, it's a worldwide hacker thing. No country, or race. They are one. One big giant group of assy douchebags. Maybe we should invent a new nationality called Douchebaggery.

And throw all the hackers, from all around the world, into this new country. It can be located in Antartica,, being they don't go outside anyway, so, the cold won't really bother them. Then,, we can be racist against Douchebags from Douchebaggery. My new mythical place that doesn't even exist,, but I'm sure Mr. Racecardplayer will say I'm a racist,,,, haha. I'm making myself laugh as I write this BS.

Ok,, ok,, I'll stop being crazy,,, I only wanted to say that I learned a valuable lesson here,, and that lesson is to watch out what you say here when you're just trying to be a little funny. Man,, some people will take it in a WHOLE different direction.

Oh,, and I learned that you should back up your stuff,,, haha.

p.s. Can't we all just get along?

Thank you all for your love and support. I love you all,,, Even Mr. Racecardplayer,

Gosh,, can't ya just feel all the love?

I think most people is misunderstanding with the two words:hacker,cracker. They are all great people who know pc and hacking technology well.BUt as i know,the hacker is good to help people to resolve the problems and protect the safety of the computer. But the cracker is bad who always destory our system and steal our pc secret, please do the backups well if you want to protect your project well.

How people get satisfaction out of destroying other people's websites blow my mind. I don't understand why hackers spend their entire days trying to ruing people's lives.

Backing your sites up is very important.

Man, I'm sorry to hear that. That's terrible that it happened to you and that you had no backup. It's stories like these that make me always regularly backup my sites. It's just that one time that you think "There's a whole internet full of millions of sites, who would go after mine?" that you end up getting hacked. I guess it just comes with the territory.

Look at this way, this hacking will prevent you from being badly affected by future hacking attempts since you'll surely start using backups.