The Dance of the Angels–and the Demons
Recently, the site was hacked in such a way as to degrade the advertising section, the store and some other areas. No credit card data was compromised as it is not kept on this website. When the signup form is filled out, that part of it goes directly to our PCI compliant payment gateway, Authorize.net. We fixed the advertising area and the store. An attempt was made to drop a script on the site that made it impossible for administrators to log in. We fixed that. The subscriber area was broken in such a way that you are not informed when your account expires and you continue to be able to log in. The result is that many of you can log in even though you are innocently unaware that you are no longer paying for your accounts. We are attempting to fix this.read more