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    Site Hack

    Did anyone else see a hack this morning when they tried to access XMarks?
    I would see the site start to load and then a flash to a pro Syria page.
    It happened for me about 8:15am Eastern all seems to be working fine now.
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    Same thing happened to me.
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    happen to me too - did not know what happened - thought the English found us again.lol
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    Quote Originally Posted by New World Czech View Post
    Did anyone else see a hack this morning when they tried to access XMarks?
    I would see the site start to load and then a flash to a pro Syria page.
    It happened for me about 8:15am Eastern all seems to be working fine now.
    Saw it about 15 minutes before you did (heard it before I saw it actually and wondered which tab I had open had music playing) and emailed the webmaster and Steve. The WM got it fixed amazingly fast, so I guess the site's data wasn't compromised, just the initial link was redirected.

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    Yes, there was a minor hack that redirected people to a pro-Syria page. It has been corrected and we are figuring out how they did it so we can prevent a recurrence.

    KCW
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    I got it too. Every time I tried to get the site. It came with a warning, so I immediately backed off. Glad to know what it was and not solely in my computer.

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    Clear here, did not happen......maybe you have it corrected.....

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    Happened to me, hats off to kiltedcodewarrior and Steve for resolving the issue so quickly.
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    I tried it as soon as I got the report on Facebook but got through as normal yet others who tried it later also got the redirect.
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    It happened to me too. I was worried for a minute!

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