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?
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Nate Whitehill said:
Hey Dax, thanks for the mention.
The “Box About Me” site is owned by my good friend Mitch Harper. I had a widget displayed on my site that Mitch created. Mitch had a problem with the hosting and the site reverted back to a parked page and for some reason the traffic was redirecting. It was pretty weird, but it is all fixed now. Anyway, thanks for thinking of me. great blog you have by the way!September 25th, 2007 at 8:08 pm -
Dax Desai said:
Thanks for clarifying Nate. I was wondering if I took the wrong pill this morning for a second there.
September 25th, 2007 at 8:51 pm
