MT.Net has been down for about 28 hours due to my WordPress installation being hacked. Fortunately, I had a copy of the database from the day before (yay, backups!). I am still not sure how it happened as my code was all up-to-date but the WordPress folks are now checking into it. I suspect an xmlrpc.php attack but do not know for sure.

Yesterday morning, my friend Scott reported that my comments links were simply refreshing the main page rather than taking him to the comments. I studied the links my WP site was now spitting out:

http://www.markturner.net/2009/05/?y%/credit-cards/#more-6422
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