Our website design was stolen

I am the lead UI/UX Engineer for a company called HelloWallet in based in DC, and I came into work yesterday and was sent a link to this website: http://themattressboutique.com/

Our website is located here: http://www.hellowallet.com

Notice any similarities? We are taking the necessary actions but I am curious, what would you all do in this situation?

Here is the traceroute: xe-7-2-0-32767-sur01.floridaave.dc.bad.comcast.net (68.85.81.181) 9.943 ms 13.016 ms 10.529 ms 4 ae-20-0-ar04.capitolhghts.md.bad.comcast.net (68.85.115.201) 35.839 ms 22.171 ms 12.891 ms 5 pos-5-7-0-0-cr01.ashburn.va.ibone.comcast.net (68.86.90.85) 33.425 ms 20.759 ms pos-4-3-0-0-cr01.ashburn.va.ibone.comcast.net (68.86.90.173) 17.624 ms 6 xe-11-1-0.edge2.washington12.level3.net (4.26.6.21) 20.346 ms 19.578 ms 17.183 ms 7 vlan51.ebr1.washington12.level3.net (4.69.146.190) 78.736 ms 76.601 ms 76.790 ms 8 ae-6-6.ebr1.atlanta2.level3.net (4.69.148.105) 78.316 ms 77.705 ms 77.245 ms 9 ae-63-63.ebr3.atlanta2.level3.net (4.69.148.241) 77.589 ms 79.110 ms 78.466 ms 10 ae-7-7.ebr3.dallas1.level3.net (4.69.134.21) 78.302 ms 78.583 ms 80.935 ms 11 ae-3-3.ebr2.losangeles1.level3.net (4.69.132.77) 76.571 ms 77.794 ms 76.753 ms 12 ae-82-82.csw3.losangeles1.level3.net (4.69.137.26) 78.186 ms ae-92-92.csw4.losangeles1.level3.net (4.69.137.30) 77.761 ms ae-62-62.csw1.losangeles1.level3.net (4.69.137.18) 83.570 ms 13 ae-2-70.edge6.losangeles1.level3.net (4.69.144.78) 75.762 ms ae-3-80.edge6.losangeles1.level3.net (4.69.144.142) 79.727 ms ae-4-90.edge6.losangeles1.level3.net (4.69.144.206) 77.652 ms 14 * * * 15 * * * 16 web04.lax1.pronethosting.net (209.151.224.237) 107.211 ms 76.224 ms 77.021 ms

And here is the web hosting company that is hosting it: http://www.coolhandle.com/

Flattering, huh?

Shugs, that is terrible. I would contact them company directly and let them know. Could be that they used a separate web-design company who is to be blamed

Probably they are Picasso followers "good artists copy but great artists steal"

Blatant copy by the way...

I work in the security/abuse department for one of the largest web hosting companies in the world and we see these types of complaints regularly. The best way to go about this would be to email the abuse@ email for the IP which is abuse@pronethosting.net. If you can't get a hold of them that way, contact the colocation company directly. Their website is http://www.cyberverse.com/.

You can find out more about this process at:

http://rising.blackstar.com/how-to-send-a-dmca-takedown-noti...

Network Information:

DNS Zone source: http://leafdns.com/index.cgi?testid=329C603D DNS Zone source: http://www.intodns.com/themattressboutique.com IP WHOIS: http://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-209-151-224-224-1/pft

Let me know if you need any other information.

Also, they are hotlinking to some images you are hosting.

You can have fun with this by changing the image to something "not ideal".