Why not ask the administrative contact for the landolakes.com site? Why would Hacker News readers have any idea what happened on an obscure website that none of us have probably ever visited?
Anyway, there are an infinite number of ways sites can be hacked. It was probably just a dumb mistake, as nearly all of the hacked sites I've seen have been (when I was contracting, about a quarter of my clients hired me for forensics and cleanups on exploited servers). Weak passwords, old versions of software with known exploits, unnecessary service running that wasn't properly secured because no one was paying attention to it, etc.