The other day, I tried to access the main page of a website that I maintain. I got a blank page. That was just a bit disconcerting.
I refreshed my cache, no improvement. However, I briefly saw a reference to another website on the status line while the blank page was coming up. Concerned the site had been spoofed, I contacted the service provider.
After some investigation, and testing on multiple systems, we determined the page displayed just swell in Firefox, but not in Internet Explorer (versions 6 or 7)! It turned out that there had been an unauthorized insertion of code on the main page. After removing the code, the page displayed properly.
Conversations with the ISP revealed that they were aware that there had been security breaches into their systems. While they suggested I change passwords, they could not say that the problem had been a password hack.
You read about people having their sites broken into, but it feels a bit different when its your own site!
