[stevenjohns]

Right! A couple of years ago some (self-reported) Turkish hackers exploited a Wordpress vuln and took control of my hosting. All they did was change index.php into their own landing page telling everyone that I got owned, that Turkey is the best, and (from memory) an Islamic Nasheed playing in the background.

It took me a couple of minutes to get everything fixed, but I can only imagine what would have happened if they were more malicious and used it to serve malware or as part of a botnet attacking other sites.

It was still annoying, disruptive and unwanted, but it was so much easier to deal with than some more malicious hacks out there.

[lcswi]

How do you know the defacement was not just a distraction of the NSA adding your machine to their bot net with some privilege escalation and root kit? Sorry :-)