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As long as you're here, do you have any details on the hack? Your only post about the attacks seems to be this one:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/26/techcrunch-hacked/

Which hasn't been updated with details as promised. The lack of details here and the fact that you got hacked again makes it look either like you don't know how he got in, or that there were multiple vulnerabilities.

It seems as if the vulnerability is in Wordpress' rpc.php file.

http://www.wickedfire.com/shooting-shit/82271-shoemoney-com-...

Do we have anyone's word on that other than a semi-anonymous poster on a messageboard?

I gotta tell you, that interstitial is pretty poorly implemented anyways (was?).

Any time I try to visit a link to TC now, the interstitial comes up and then sends me to the front page. I'm not going to dig through to figure out where the actual content lives. Although, I've already dealt with the ads, so maybe it doesn't really matter.

Dang, on purpose would have been more fun.

i hope this doesn't mean you have to keep that welcome ad page up as a matter of principle going forward.