Here is a screenshot of the Hacked JoeTech site.

http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/1637/joetechhackedin0.jpg

Ha! I removed it some time ago -- got tired of sending him traffic for free when I could sell that space.

This just makes that decision all the sweeter :)

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So, for those don't want to click the link:

JoeTech.com was hacked. If the hackers get a hold of his EC slot machine game widget, then they can insert malicious code into it. That puts all the sites that have that widget installed at risk.

So, take off JoeTech's slot machine widget ASAP.

Hopefully this will be taken care of shortly.

Wow ... that's amazing. Wonder who you got to piss off to have that happen to your site or is it just random mischief?

I think it's a random thing...

Thanks for posting that.

Wow.. no wonder his popularity decreased on the technology blog..

Can't believe that they hack everything nowadays!! Forums, Codes, Blogs, WordPress plug-ins, and now even a slot machine!

PS: Has anyone notified Joe yet?

I havent notified him, since his website is down I dont know his email adress...

Alright, I've sent him a message through Entrecard, in case he doesn't know about this yet.

Sorry about the widget, everyone. It was a casualty of my April Fools prank. I set everything back to normal a few hours ago... I had figured I didn't trick anyone and gave up.

The traffic I'll probably lose from the widget removals is an unwanted side-effect, but that's ok.

Most important is that I did NOT get hacked, and nobody who has a widget on their site was ever at risk.

Sorry about the scare.

that is the worst April fool ever!! Well good it was a fake..for you that is..

lol ... great one. Anyone see Shoemoneys' April 1st post? Problogger also had a great one.

Good one. LOL! Anyway, for those interested a screenshot of how it looked is up there. LOL!

I'm posting a follow-up on JoeTech.com in about 15 minutes. I'll post the link on twitter when it's up.

lol serve you right for making a fool of everyone ^^

Holy crud. I'm glad you were not hacked. Pretty good trick actually since so many people were fooled.

Redw0rm is a familiar handle...