Nate Whitehill’s site hijacked?

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The internet is a dirty world sometimes and one of the cons of having a popular website is that you may become the target of site-hijacking. This is when someone hacks your site and puts in a redirect to their own website. This is done to build traffic, make money on adsense, etc. The end result is a website will lose traffic and a dubious character might benefit. I think one of my favorite blogs just got hijacked.

I just went to natewhitehill.com and I get redirected to http://www.boxaboutme.com. Nate Whitehill for those unfamiliar is the designer of John Chow’s blog layout working at his own company - Unique Blog Designs.

I tried in different browsers, different machines with same result. I’m not sure if it indeed got hijacked or if it is merely my computers, but Google Lady has a nice post about the topic of site-hijacks.

If anyone can confirm, please leave a comment.

** Update ** Site works now. Wondering if it was all a figment of my imagination?