Hi webmasters, any stories or interesting pieces of data to tell?
Used to work on a company that managed multiple big website, I was in charge of 5 of them, and as you would expect from classic devs, I created the CMS for those websites (from scratch, using Perl). The websites were NEVER hacked over the course of 10-11 or more years in a row, that's quite a clean record.
Another department had one website, fully created using just html (every page made by hand), never hacked.
Other departments used Wordpress, and they were constantly hacked, yeah, time after time. If it wasn't a hacking problem, then pretty sure whey would be offline due to overloads, even having WAY less traffic than the sites I managed, and they were constantly moving to larger and faster servers (while my sites were all at the same server using very low resources).
One department used a custom JSP solution and Oracle, and somehow experienced rollbacks, that's a diff story, not hacked, just configuration issues.
Before leaving (about 2 years prior) we discussed a transition (for the websites I managed), because they were using my code, and this could create conflicts when new people arrived, so... I proposed DRUPAL, the websites worked fine over those 2 years, no speed or overload issues.
Then I left and the main site got hacked. Naturally, they hired a super-master webmaster who fixed it... nope, he just restored a backup and the site got hacked again, and then he was removed from the company. Eventually the company faced a crisis and killed all the websites except 1, but that's a diff story.
What about you?