PATRICK RUFFINI has suffered a hack attack. Here’s his backup site.

And, btw, mine’s at http://instabackup.blogspot.com — just in case.

UPDATE: Some free advice from Stacy Tabb:

Oh, if you want to publish a little advice for those being hacked, the two main ways a hacker will get in to a blog are if HTML comments are enabled in older versions of MT (2.6+ has the sanitize plugin integrated) and PHP install files left lying around (such as for phpBB, etc.). If people would clean up after themselves they (and we) wouldn’t have so much grief.

Words from the wise.