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Unknowncountry.com was hacked this morning. The site was restored within half an hour. The hack did not involve any viruses, etc., but rather a manual entry into the site’s back end and a small, almost unnoticeable change in a string of code. Our webmaster, James Beeson, managed to fix it even though he was for the most part locked out of the site by an associated exploit.

No personal information was compromised. Because Unknowncountry is a target for hackers, we do not keep your credit card information on the site. That is kept with our merchant bank on a PCI-compliant secure server. In our 20+ years of operation, we have never lost anybody’s credit card data or personal information.
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Unknowncountry has recently instituted enhanced security measures to protect your privacy and insure that your visit to our website does not result in any compromise to your security. Since the beginning of the site, we have never sold email addresses or data in any way whatsoever. We also have a policy against data mining on the site. In other words, when you come here, there is nothing watching your actions in order to push ads to your computer, or for any other reason.
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Unknowncountry.com is not a political website, but it does follow the lead of the visitors, and there are two areas in which the new administration appears to be at odds with them.

The first is the environment. The second is human rights.

I have had them in my life essentially all of my life, and, even without knowing exactly what they are, I have accepted their intelligence, their wisdom and their habit of making startlingly accurate predictions.

From them I have learned two things: first, we have wonderful bodies that are capable of growing glorious souls; second, we are in danger of extinction due to environmental decline.
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The attack on Unknowncountry.com was not an attempt to steal user data. It is being run by a bank which is attempting to create thousands of fake subscriptions which it can then cancel and charge back, assessing us a fee for the chargeback. Such attacks can be devastating, but we have strong security features, and all of the fake subscriptions are all being automatically declined. ALL USER DATA IS SECURE. The attack was run from the Russian Federation, from URL 94.232.16.183.To learn more about this URL, click here.
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