Looking for help from the DP community here. I am trying to track down someone that stole some of my blogs, and has subsequently gone on to replace the ad codes, while keeping the blogs active. I have launched a google investigation, and it is making great progress, but I am still at the mighty G's mercy. What resources would you all recommend? What methods would you use, any tips or tricks? Looking for any help to get this resolved.
Do you have any Ip Logs in any of your blogs like when someone logged in as administrator on your blogs? If you find any ip's which are not yours just do whois.sc/ipaddress and send a email to the abuse email listed on the whois. Since part of your problem has to do with couple sites hosted on 1 of my servers I will try to do some digging looking for the login history for the Cpanel accounts which had the problems to see If I can find any inconsistency of the ip's which loged in. But I believe it is only script side because I just did security detail and there has been no exploits.
well, god news for me, google just restored all my blogs. and I have the email addresses of the google profiles that had them...now the fun really starts! That's a great start FTN, I appreciate that very much. The problem has also involved a dp user that had his account hacked and then ads were posted selling blogs - 2 of which were mine. The blogs in question are all blogger blogs, 5 of them, and now they have even changed hands from 1 blogger account to 2 separate accounts, so I think my blogs were actually sold. I can only imagine how many other blogs have been stolen by this individual. and of course you cannot contact these account holders... I've filed 2 DCMA complaints, an InterPOL complaint, several google complaints, a yahoo partners network complaint, an adsense complaint, and I'm nowhere near done! Adsense actually reactivated my gmail account after it was deleted. Google (the blogger portion) thus far has done nothing I have quite a trail of forums, email addresses to link back to including a name, and a country but no ip. I just want my property back....3 years of work on some of those blogs.