"Just Hacked My Own Website and Learned How Not to LOL"

[mzn3]

"Hey guys, just had a close call with my own website. I thought I had secured it pretty well, but somehow a weak password and a vulnerable plugin led to a nasty hack. Luckily, I was able to recover everything, but I'm still shaking my head thinking about what could've been..."

 

[avaya]

"Dude, that's a wild story! Glad you were able to contain the damage and learn from your mistake. Just a heads up, make sure you change all your site's default admin passwords ASAP"

 

[sobolev'sfamily]

"Dude that's crazy, what happened? Did you use a password manager or write down all your credentials?"

 

[Diamant]

"Dude, that's hilarious... and super relatable. I had a similar experience with my crypto project's GitHub repo - I managed to lock myself out of it for hours"

 

[Alex-]

"HAHA nice one OP! What's the story behind the hack, was it a script kiddie style exploit or something more serious? Either way, good job learning from the experience, now you can warn others."

 

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[coller1515]

"LMAO gotta love the irony, how did you manage to hack yourself? Did you find any vulnerabilities that we can learn from or was it just a case of user error?"

 

[den7878]

"Ouch, that sounds like a tough lesson to learn the hard way lol. Did you manage to contain the damage and patch the security hole, or did you end up with a major setback?"

 

[Вад54]

"Dude, that's a crazy story. So you used a strong password generator for the first time and still managed to get hacked. Guess you can say you learned a lot more than expected"

 

[ziirex]

"Lol yeah I've been there before, tried to update a script and ended up getting myself locked out . How's your website, is it still recoverable?"

 

[hopped]

"Dude, that's a crazy story! Glad you were able to secure your site before things got worse. What kind of vulnerability were you dealing with?"