Site Down Again

By: Law is Cool · April 15, 2008 · Filed Under Administrative · 2 Comments 

Our site was apparently hacked again last night. In addition to uploading spam content, they also deleted all plug-ins and several pages, including the ones on the Macleans case and Blawger of the Year Daniel Simard.

We seem to encounter these problems every time we post something critical of Steyn, which we find unfortunate.

We’ll try to restore the site over the summer, but for now it seems we’re temporarily out of service while we go through exams.

Update: We’re back. The problem appeared to be an old version of WordPress, which allowed the Steyn supporter hacker to delete files and access our controls.

Thanks to BigCityLib and others on the blogosphere that expressed concern.

A very special thank you to those who helped us get back up running so quickly, including Scott Tribe of Progressive Bloggers, and Lawrence Gridin of UWO Law (we just recruited him for the team).

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2 Responses to “Site Down Again”

  1. BigCityLib Strikes Back: April 2008 on April 16th, 2008 4:54 pm

    [...] as I don’t think “Donklephant” counts as Canadian, or media.And the Steynosaurs are attacking!Our site [Law is Cool] was apparently hacked again last night. In addition to uploading spam content…Click on the above link and see Law is Cool not being there.You know Mark, you might mention to your [...]

  2. Daniel Simard on April 18th, 2008 8:20 am

    How ironic that the disingenuous free speech supporters have once again breached our site to restrict alternate views on issues of political importance…

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