blogrolling problem

Now what is going on? Some one has apparently hacked into my blogrolling account and replaced everthing with something called Laura's Blog. I am temporarily taking out the blogroll as a result.

UPDATE: It wasn't just me, apparently; it was everybody who uses blogrolling.com. Thanks to Jason for having a backup and for restoring it.

Posted by Bill Hopkins on November 17, 2003 10:19 AM
Comments

it appears that *everyone's* blogrolling lists have been affected. bleah.

oh, and you're welcome to have some of our houston rain ;) it's a bit soggy down here.

Posted by: erica at November 17, 2003 10:31 AM

Hi Bill,

Th same thing has happened to me and to Steve at OnMyMind. I've lost most of my blog links so I'm going to have to go looking for everyone again. This is really making me angry and I'd like to do something about the attacks on blogs with spamming. I'd like to band people together and try to brainstorm ideas for stopping spam, possibly comring up with unconventional ways to deal with it.

Posted by: Miguel Arboleda at November 17, 2003 10:33 AM

Yep happened to the ones I visit too. DOn't ya just hate people that don't play fair.

Posted by: Mary Lou at November 17, 2003 11:14 AM

Bill, it looks like all the links are back. Jason, of BlogRolling.com, said that a hacker messed up his files and he had to restore everything from a backup. About 3000 peopple e-mailed him about the problem. Man, I feel sorry for him! Especially because he was doing this for everyone for free!!!

Posted by: Miguel Arboleda at November 17, 2003 02:00 PM

I use blogrolling.com, but didn't have that problem. I'm glad, since I'm not sure how recent my backup is.

Posted by: Kathryn Cramer at November 18, 2003 02:00 PM