[Update 2: Well, one of the only benefits to not doing much blogging this summer is I didn't have much to re-post. All done now. The comments on posts from May are missing though and I'll be putting them back over time.]
[Update: I wasn't able to recover the database so I'm having to rebuild the last few months by hand in my spare time using Google Reader and emails from Feedburner. This may take some time...]
Over the weekend a Wordpress hack was discovered and this site was affected. I thought I’d dealt with it but suddenly this afternoon all the posts back to Feb 2009 vanished, so I guess I didn’t deal with it.
I’ve restored the database to the last backup I had, but like an idiot I haven’t been keeping backups since May. The posts do exist in a backup the host holds but this database will also be affected so it’ll be a while before I can get everything back online.
In the meanwhile, enjoy May 2009.
And if you haven’t checked your self-hosted Wordpress installation to see if it’s a) up to date and b) infected, do so now.
D’log has a guide though I stumbled on the MySQL bit so I’m doing fresh installations of blogs that were affected.
I’m also seriously thinking about the costs vs benefits of self-hosting as well as looking again at Movable Type, etc (which suffer form a lack of plugin community).
Sorry to hear you’ve been affected, Pete. What an absolute pain.
Gah, complete pita. I was hacked too, and posted a fix which tbh is a lot more complex than it first appears. Mine was caught before there was too much damage.
We really do need an alternative to WP.org now. I’d go back to MT if I knew how to move everything. Drupal. Is it really too complicated?
@brenda The issue for me in plugins. A few have become essential. Plus this was all about not upgrading (upgrade fatigue, as I call it). I think I may have too many wp instalations out there. Might be best to stick to just a few and not use them as default – use wp.com or similar for more disposable projects. Or something.