Our Hosting Provider Was Hacked

Courtesy AustinTowers Downtown Condo Blog  Mon, 11/17/2008 - 2:03am

While our website has been working perfectly well, If you tried to access Austin Towers through a major search engine over the last few days, you were probably surprised to be redirected to a random site.

We were surprised as well. It turns out that our hosting provider was hacked: some sneak changed a single file on every domain that automatically redirected searches from yahoo, google, and others to their site.

We apologize for the problem and are...



 

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