December
stupid hackers.
It is with great sadness that I must tell you that my site was hacked. I’m not sure exactly what happened, whether an actual person hacked it or if a plug-in was corrupt and actually a front for a phishing scam. Regardless, a phishing page was installed by someone other than myself onto my page. FatCow, my web host, disabled my account and I’ve been on the phone with them for the last three hours getting everything straightened out. I’m really sorry. I had to delete EVERYTHING from my site, but luckily I was able to recover everything and delete the things I know were bad and even the ones I was afraid may have malicious files. PLEASE let me know if you see anything “phishy” (ha ha) on here because your privacy and security is my top priority. I think I squashed the problem though. I changed all my passwords and subscribed to SiteLock.
I know things like this happen every day and believe me, I’m not having a pity party, but this blog is very important to me. It has become a crucial part of my weight loss success, and I have enjoyed making friends with each and every single one of you. Your comments, emails, and words of encouragement mean more to me than I could ever express. There are many times I felt like giving up, and you pushed my big butt along the way and told me to put on my big girl panties on, to keep my head up, reminding me that you believe in me and there is light at the end of this flabby tunnel. I have made great friends through this, and I thank God that I have the ability to have this in my life as another tool in my weight loss journey. I hope that I can recover my blogs and comments. Your comments make me so happy. Some make me laugh, some make me cry, but they all have helped me in becoming a better person and hopefully one day, a role model to overweight people who have fought the same struggle.
If anything, this has made me that much more dedicated. You don’t know what something means to you until it is taken away. It has made me realize not only how important this blog is in my life but how important my weight loss is to my life.
And as always, love and God bless.
What? I just invested my life savings in that Nigerian money market fund you recommended! You owe me $315.81!
LOL, Jack. You make me smile, even when I was ready to beat those people down.
What? That’s terrible! I’m sorry that happened to you. :( I hope it doesn’t happen again.
ps – I’m not on your blog roll? Sad day! hehe.