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New Trend: Smaller Kiwi websites are now being targeted for hacking; disruption & data theft.

 New Trend: Smaller Kiwi websites are now being targeted for hacking; disruption & data theft. 


First they came for the government, but mine was not a New Zealand government site, so I did not take the threat seriously; then they attacked the banks, but we aren't a bank, so I noticed, but remained reasonably calm; But, suddenly this weekend, they (the overseas hackers) came for e-Agent's website (www.e-agent.nz) and for the next 24 hours I could not focus on anything else.

So, what kind of attack was it? No, not your run-of-the-mill Denial of Service Attack, though they have tried that at times. This attack was aimed to scrape the site for code to steal, this triggered several old email scripts to run and send out old emails to clients.  At no time was the database at risk.

e-Agent uses one of the best IT/Programming services (JB Metrics Ltd) to protect us, while acting as our program developmental partner.. and boy are we glad we made that decision!
Location: 12 Jacob Street, Brookfield, Tauranga 3110, New Zealand

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