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When I tried pi-hole I was amazed by it. Until the day I discovered someone in China hacked it :-///
by 2dvisio 9y ago
When I tried pi-hole I was amazed by it. Until the day I discovered someone in China hacked it :-///
- AckSyn 9y agoCould have been a number of things - most likely culprit I've seen is that it was left exposed to the internet, ssh most likely, and the default password wasn't changed.
- dfee 9y agoThat’s terrible. Did you move on to something else?
- chewyland 9y agoSounds like a poor or reused password.
- DavideNL 9y ago...and how did you come to the conclusion they hacked the pi-hole?
- edgartaor 9y agoI got tons of shh login attempts from Russia and China. I just install fail2ban.
- hendersoon 9y agoWhy is your pi-hole exposed to the internet? That's not a great idea. You could have other people using your DNS service also. It's true it's security through obscurity and won't slow down a spear fisher, but I always change the SSH port to something like 22022 when I have to expose it to the internet and find this eliminates almost all of the portscanning/doorknob rattling. Same thing with wordpress, changing the /wp-admin directory is immensely helpful.