DavidWalsh.Name Has Been Stolen

I like David Walsh, however I don't have much pity for him in this situation. His account was hacked, probably due to something he did (reused a password, had a password someone guessed, etc). If godaddy was hacked (like he tweeted and later redacted), they would have taken much bigger domains than his. It sucks, but it was his fault.

His site was put back up within hours, which is pretty fast for anything involving domains. The current holdup seems to be that the registrar is checking things out and confirming what happened before giving control back to him. This seems understandable; what if this were some elaborate social engineering scam?

Basically, he had his domain stolen, which sucks. All parties involved (none of which were at fault, and don't really owe him anything) acted quickly, but he spent 4 days bashing them on Twitter. He got his domain to point to his site quickly, and is now complaining because he doesn't "own" it (despite the registrar saying they're working on it).

Re: DavidWalsh.Name Has Been Stolen

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Post by DavidWalsh83 » Fri, Dec 02, 2011, 4:10 PM UTC

gkoberger wrote: post #6

I like David Walsh, however I don't have much pity for him in this situation. His account was hacked, probably due to something he did (reused a password, had a password someone guessed, etc). If godaddy was hacked (like he tweeted and later redacted), they would have taken much bigger domains than his. It sucks, but it was his fault. His site was put back up within hours, which is pretty fast for anything involving…

CSS-Tricks.com, SohTanaka.com, and InstantShift were taken as well.

Yep, you're right. Our fault.

Re: DavidWalsh.Name Has Been Stolen

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Post by dandonkulous » Fri, Dec 02, 2011, 4:31 PM UTC

gkoberger wrote: post #6

I like David Walsh, however I don't have much pity for him in this situation. His account was hacked, probably due to something he did (reused a password, had a password someone guessed, etc). If godaddy was hacked (like he tweeted and later redacted), they would have taken much bigger domains than his. It sucks, but it was his fault. His site was put back up within hours, which is pretty fast for anything involving…

Yeah Greg, I must say, do you really think David's (or any web-savy developers) passwords are "password" or "root"? Highly unlikely bro. Anywho, CSS Tricks and a few others were jacked too, so there goes the simple password explanation eh?

Re: DavidWalsh.Name Has Been Stolen

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Post by gkoberger » Sat, Dec 03, 2011, 12:07 AM UTC

DavidWalsh83 wrote: post #7

gkoberger wrote: post #6

I like David Walsh, however I don't have much pity for him in this situation. His account was hacked, probably due to something he did (reused a password, had a password someone guessed, etc). If godaddy was hacked (like he tweeted and later redacted), they would have taken much bigger domains than his. It sucks, but it was his fault. His site was put back up within hours, which is pretty fast for anything involving…

CSS-Tricks.com, SohTanaka.com, and InstantShift were taken as well. Yep, you're right. Our fault.

When I say "your fault", I don't mean you wrote down your password and mailed it to the "hackers". All the domains compromised seem to be related to a certain extent.

Your credentials were compromised by some means. Maybe you all signed up for the same site that was compromised? Or all went to the same website that installed some sort of malware on your computer? It's way more likely that you (unintentionally) were at fault. It's doubtful this is on GoDaddy.

Don't get me wrong, I love your site and have been reading for years. However, if someone really had hacked GoDaddy, they wouldn't waste time taking over blogs about MooTools. There are so many better targets they could have gone for.