davidairey.com hacked and hijacked!
What is the world coming to? Someone just stole David Airey’s url. Can you imagine that? Now, if you go to www.davidairey.com, you see a “parking” page rather than his highly popular blog!
David has moved his stuff over to a new url: http://www.davidairey.co.uk
Somehow, the hacker managed to contact David’s domain reseller and got the url switched. He got into David’s Gmail too! Well, this sort of highlights one of the dangers of using free webmail services to run important things like your business dealings.
It would be interesting to see how Google will deal with this or will they simply blame it on the end user’s “weak” password? It would also be good to follow this and see how the authorities are going to deal with this domain theft.
David is known to many of us (online) and we share his ire at this. What a way to celebrate Christmas.
David Airey said,
December 23, 2007 at 9:44 am
Hi Calvin,
Thanks so much for posting about this, and helping spread the word of my domain move.
It’s a setback, but there are many positives to take. Not least the amazing group of people, such as you, who come to the rescue!
I hope you have a fantastic festive period.
Calvin Warr said,
December 23, 2007 at 4:36 pm
David, have a great Christmas. Next year, when we return, we hope to read the full saga and hope to learn that justice has prevailed.
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