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I personally don’t happen to have any blogs on Thumblogger, but I do have some on the Sexusblogs and Sensual Writer, and I’m just in shock to learn that the Thumblogger server located in Dallas, Texas got hacked and all the data erased.

Posted on Dec.24, 2008 to the AdultWebmasterGroup.com is this announcement from Twan:

“Yesterday we had a hacker on the thumblogger and backup server, who deleted all files. Yesterday afternoon I managed to get a new server online and recovered data from a old backup, to get the older blogs online again. Today i made the thumblogger control panel functional again.

The hacked harddisk of the backup server is currently flying from Dallas to The Netherlands as this is written. When it arrives a specialized company will try to recover the deleted data. Hopefully this will result in a more recent backup which i can then restore.

Today i’m going to try to get everything running smoothly again.”

As of today, it looks like they have only been able to restore posts/accounts up to about July 2008. I didn’t see any follow up posts from Twan as yet, so I can only assume he’s waiting on the drive or for the recovery team to perform a miracle.  There seems to be a bunch of domain name grabbing going on, which is sad that others feel the need to exploit an already dreadful situation. There are some webmasters who are loosing a very high percentage of their income while this is sorted out.

For myself, I’m going to be looking into ways of backing up those remote hosted blogs of mine, and be very glad that I have used several free adult blog host accounts and not put all of mine on one domain. A reminder to anyone wanting to spread their eggs around a bit more, check out the right column of this blog for a listing of free adult blog hosts you can use.

I do hope Twan can get those sites back up, I admire all that he has done and certainly grateful to be using some of his sites and tools. I’ll try to post an update when more news is available.