SITE DOWN: Dealing with a Hacker’

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Hi everyone!

Over the last three hours, a hacker has been testing methods to inject code into the site. We noticed this happening about half an hour ago. As of a couple minutes ago, he found a way to successfully inject code into the site. For this reason, the site has been shut down until we can find a fix.

If all goes well, this should be done in a couple of hours. Due to massive tag vandalism, however, we may need to restore a backup of the site, which will remove some comments. We’ll look into methods to avoid having to restore a backup.

Thanks for your patience. If you’ve been affected by this in any way, please let us know.

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I opened my email this morning and had thirty (30) new comments on my latest story. Hurray! I thought.

Alas, it was the hacker, impersonating Edlam.

Thank you to our site admins for catching this and for doing to good work to protect all of our works. It is appreciated.

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