NC Advocacy website crashes

The website for my political action committee, the NC Advocacy Coalition (www.ncadvocacycoalition.org), crashed on Tuesday. My friend, colleague and our Asst. Executive Director Brandon Greeson receives emails everytime something is updated on the website. Today he received an email with almost 30 new comments from a user name, “johnsmith666″ or something like that. He went to check to see what it was and the site wasn’t there.

I think we got hacked, but I really don’t know. All I do know, however, is that we don’t have a website right now and that I’m not sure if we backed up everything that was on the site previously. So… Hopefully we can get this mess figured out.

On a bright side, however, I played with some of the CMS programs that we have access to and I found out that ALL of them pretty much suck, with the exclusion of Drupal and Mambo and, of course… my favorite blogging platform, Wordpress.

I’m thinking we’ll use Mambo for our next site… if we ever figure out what went wrong with the first one.

Update: Ok… I’m told that the site wasn’t hacked by anyone… I’m told that it was, more than likely, a virus that hit a few sites operated on servers run by the hosting company we use. Needless to say… we’re still figuring things out.

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