We were down this morning

I woke up this morning to find that Niponster was suspended...

Can you imagine my surprise?
And then, to my no small mortification, I opened my email account and found the following from our webhost:

"Hello,
We are emailing you to inform you that your account is suspended due
to AUP/TOS violation. We received a notification from our upstream provider that
your website was involved in using a trademarked name and pictures to
fraudulently gain logins and passwords to accounts. As per our TOS, we have
suspended your website."

About now I am gulping hard and wondering what in the world could have happened. I know that I haven't done anything, but I gather from the email that they are accusing me of phishing. How can that be?

We had had a problem with crackers before on another website so my mind immediately raced back to that experience. I thought, "It must be the work of crackers. Somehow they have hacked into my site and planted their phishing page."

I will save you a long read and let you know that that is what it was and that the situation was all resolved by this afternoon and everything is back to normal.

I would write more about it, for those of you that have websites that might be similarly targeted but I don't want to bore the rest of the readers. If you want to know more about how I corrected the problem please contact me and you can also find out about how phishers are hijacking websites in this article (http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1000000189,39202003,00.htm )

-Tori