It was a Spammer. The Guestbook was set up to e-mail the people who signed it if I replied to their posts; the spammer who had hacked in had Replied as if he/she/it was me, with adverts for "web developer tools", so that the nice people who'd left feedback would get e-mails apparently from me containing the adverts, and the links to the spammer's dodgy site were of course left up on my Guestbook too as if I was endorsing them.
One of the Visitors was from Sweden and the spammer had even put the adverts in that Reply in Swedish!
I didn't lose any data; just the nice feedback, and as they'd changed my Admin password to the Guestbook and locked me out of my own freaking Guestbook I couldn't do anything but delete the whole thing.
Yes, I was sloppy with the terminology, I do know that stricly speaking hackers are not malicious, but I was too bloody furious for fine distinctions. I was in something of a "kill them all and let God sort them out" mood.
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Date: 2004-11-21 03:05 am (UTC)One of the Visitors was from Sweden and the spammer had even put the adverts in that Reply in Swedish!
I didn't lose any data; just the nice feedback, and as they'd changed my Admin password to the Guestbook and locked me out of my own freaking Guestbook I couldn't do anything but delete the whole thing.
Yes, I was sloppy with the terminology, I do know that stricly speaking hackers are not malicious, but I was too bloody furious for fine distinctions. I was in something of a "kill them all and let God sort them out" mood.