Chad Windnagle writes over at The Joomla Community Portal of his recent pain after a site of a client of his was hacked.

The short version of his story is that he was using a demo Joomla installation of his as a base template to quickly set up a new site, complete with his "must have" extensions. A new site he brought online was quickly hacked, let me quote a little of his post:

"I decided to contact my hosting company to ask them if they had been having server issues or something of that nature. “Hacked” came the word back from the help desk. How could I be hacked? The site wasn’t even live and it was unlike any other hack I had ever seen. My support technician razed me about upgrades. Upgrades? “Who has time for those?” I complained. I have over 100 Joomla! sites, 20 of which are running Joomla! 1.5 and I’m supposed to keep them all running the latest version? The answer is simple: “Yes”. "

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