[wp-forums] Strange hack?

[Peter Bending]

The hack curled back to wpstats.org , I would say they were reported to their registrar/host and they exercised their right to switch em off. Although setting it to 127.0.0.1 is a bit shabby.

Peter Bending
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On 8 Feb 2013, at 19:45, Mark Ratledge <mark at markratledge.com> wrote:

> This user is talking about a hack concerning wpstats.org here http://wordpress.org/support/topic/wwwwpstatsorg-jquery-hack-404-error?replies=1
> 
> and it looks like this: http://blog.sucuri.net/2012/05/wpstats-org-spam-and-a-fake-advanced-search-plugin.html
> 
> When I go to wpstats.org on OS X, I get phpmyadmin and see my database on my localhost server, because DNS shows the A record for wpstats.org points to 127.0.0.1 Is that part of their hack? Or is that site dead?
> 
> -- Mark
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