At round 5:00pm earlier as we speak, we acquired hacked. Well, hacked is a fairly loaded time period. In essentially the most fundamental phrases, our safety was far too relaxed, and we right here at DroidGamers have loads of work to do. 

As you’re most likely conscious, we’re a brand new group right here at DroidGamers, taking on from Harry Slater who has sorted this web site for years. However, this tough change of fingers has left us with numerous points. 

The DroidGamers Hack 

Earlier as we speak, a hacker managed to make their approach into the DroidGamers backend utilizing the previous editor’s account. In their temporary time with entry, the hacker uploaded a follow-back hyperlink article for numerous grownup web sites. 

This article “free porn videos online” is utilized by numerous shady corporations. As a preferred web site, we get numerous emails asking for these articles to be written daily. In this case, a hacker determined to interrupt their approach into the backend and publish the article by themselves. 

The article in query does level in the direction of this. For instance, there are quite a few hyperlinks to web sites that we are going to not share right here. These hyperlinks aren’t solely used to gather info from you, our readers, but in addition to enhance the search optimisation of their web site in engines like google equivalent to Google, to the detriment of ours.  

What’s extra worrying is that the hacker in query additionally managed to achieve entry to one in every of our sister websites: iFanzine. At the time of writing, we’re nonetheless uncertain as to how that is the case, however it will seem to be everybody right here wants to enhance safety. 

How are we fixing this 

We are taking steps to repair numerous points right here at DroidGamers, together with the web site’s poor safety. For instance, we’ve eliminated any entry to all hacked accounts on the web site. 

This implies that these posts mustn’t happen once more, until one in every of us will get extraordinarily drunk. Furthermore, we’re making steps to ensure that any inessential accounts are unable to publish with out editor oversight. 

DroidGamers is, sadly, hyper-targeted for hacks and spam. Every day, dozens of spam feedback are submitted to the positioning and we do out greatest to take away any and all spam feedback we see. 

There are different, future plans to enhance the DroidGamers expertise, hopefully within the very close to future. If you will have any recommendations, pop them within the feedback under, we learn all the pieces. Yes, all the pieces.