As you know IndyPlanet and it's parent site Ka-Blam was hit by hackers a night ago. While IP is still down Ka-Blam is up and working. With this being the case "Epitaph: Abiding Lilith #1" has yet to be made available, but was in the system. The next Epitaph book should be out sometime next month. Current NPP titles should available in the next few days once this is cleared up.
Ka-Blam is keeping people abreast of what's happening via their website. According to their blog, "...some time in the early morning hours our sites were hacked. We’re not sure how they got in or what they were really trying to accomplish other than cause mischief.
Which they did in abundance.
Thankfully — and luckily for us –they also seem to have been somewhat inept. They left their mark on EVERY php and html file on more than a dozen domains, but they also left a pretty obvious trail behind and it doesn’t appear they did any irreparable harm. Still, Thomas and I have both spent the entire day combing through file after file, line by line, deleting the malicious additions made to our code.
We’re still checking, but it appears that we’ve got Ka-Blam.com clean once again. You may still, however, see a malicious site warning from your browser. My understanding is that those can linger until lifted by the third parties that impose them. We’re looking into that now.
In the meantime, we do believe that Ka-Blam is clean once again but if you should come across an sql error please let us know.
IndyPlanet and ComicsMonkey are both still down. We’ll be working on cleaning those all weekend I’m sure. We apologize for the inconvenience and beg your patience."
Apparently it was also discovered that the hacking attack came from Chinese hackers (or at least someone in China) and the attack seems to be very random. In a blog response Ka-Blam's Barry Gregory strongly advises to "stay away" from IndyPlanet and Comics Monkey until further notice.
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