This is one of the "it's happening right now" deals, so if it ends up I'm getting some of the fact wrong, my apologies in advance. The important part of this story is the blogs that are affected. There are not a few famous and important blogs affected by this. Soapblox gives up after hacker attack.

SoapBlox is Dead
by: pacified
January 07, 2009 at 08:15:46 MST
It was a good ride, but it's over.

Thanks for all the fish.

All these hackers messing with our stuff, and we here at SoapBlox have no clue what to do. We don't have enough knowledge, time, money, or care to fix it.

So I hope the Hackers are happy.

If you want the data from your blog, we will get it. But we are not going to try and restore anything.

Consider this the "We're Out of Business" post.

Most of the servers have been taken off line because they were being used to hack and exploit other websites. The hackers install this crap on servers after they get in. SoapBlox's ISP then takes the servers off line.

We do not know when they will come back online.

We do not know if they will come back online.

This is a dire warning for the organizing part of the blogosphere. I expect more in the future. GOS thread on this topic.