We would like to apologize for the incident which occured today affecting our partner blogger's websites. We take these issues very seriously. The following is a report of what happened:
Today April 28, 2014 . We received reports of malware notices occurring across our website. We also received reports that this was affecting our blogger's websites also.
After investigating the issue we found that the open source software we use for serving our ads, OpenX, was hacked into and malicious javascript code was inserted. This code appeared only on the Topblogs.com.ph webpages and not on our partner blogger's websites. Unfortunately with the way that Google's Malware warning system works, any site using javascript code from our site that got infected also gets a warning, thus the warning cascaded down to the websites of our partner bloggers.
We have already removed the OpenX software from our website and requested Google to remove the Malware notice.
The malware notices will start to disappear after 24 hours. If you are a partner blogger using the TopBlogs code, you may remove it for now until the malware notices have cleared.
We would like to reiterate, in now way was our user database compromised nor the actual TopBlogs code that is used by our partner bloggers. Our ad serving software was the one that was compromised.
Thank you,
Andre
TopBlogs.com.ph
