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VideoSwiper Hacked … Hackers impersonating Owners

Site has been restored back to original owners

I had built VideoSwiper long time back for Jason . You can read about it here http://www.ngcoders.com/php/videoswiper-mass-video-embedding-application, you can also check it out in my portfolio site.

But i have to come to learn that the hackers taking advantage of the holidays hacked the main server and have stolen the domain also. So basically now they are running a site which is a less featured clone on videoswiper.com . They reset all the accounts by redirecting the email which was admin[AT]videoswiper.com. Also they have the balls to say that the original owner is doing phishing :) . They also have stolen downloadMod.php code from my site Videoswiperplus and saying that they have written it.

I hope jason gets his sites back soon.

You can read more about it here – http://www.jasontaylor.me.uk/2010/01/04/videoswiper-hacked-dont-be-fooled/

Hackers should be dealt swiftly , i did have a soft side for these guys when i was a kid. But now i think they should be treated like common criminals , and maybe some should be made an example out of to stop the damage they cause.
Lesson learned – Avoid having emails for hosting and other important accounts like email@yoursite.com , if yoursite.com DNS record gets hacked all emails are redirected by hackers to reset everything and you will never come to know what happened. I believe sites like gmail , yahoo are much safer in this case. Also keep diffrent password for every single account , atleast the important ones.

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