Corrupted node

Boldra just told me that Re: Re: A Perl aptitude test was severely messed up. I've just replaced it with my best guess of what it originally said. Hopefully the new version is reasonably close.

I don't want to create work for the gods, but I think this issue deserves some attention. How could an old post randomly get messed up? (Could it be tied to the recent break-in?) Are there more messed up posts out there? Is there a backup of the post which could be restored to get the original?

Thanks in advance.

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Re: Corrupted node by Argel (Prior) on Aug 18, 2009 at 19:12 UTC
FYI, The break-in occured on a different server (though that doesn't preclude this one from being hacked). So what did the corruption look like? Elda Taluta; Sarks Sark; Ark Arks	[reply]
Re^2: Corrupted node by tilly (Archbishop) on Aug 18, 2009 at 19:30 UTC
The second paragraph ended in a row of characters that displayed on my browser as a row of spades. (You know, the symbol that you see on a card.) I should have preserved some so we could look at what it was, but I didn't think of it until after I fixed the node. And then it was too late. :-(	[reply]
Re^3: Corrupted node by Boldra (Curate) on Aug 19, 2009 at 11:15 UTC
Funny, I thought they were diamonds, albiet black ones. It was conspicuous because it was an unbroken line of these which was forcing the page width to ~120 characters, and making the whole thread difficult to read. - Boldra	[reply]
Re^4: Corrupted node by tilly (Archbishop) on Aug 19, 2009 at 16:29 UTC
Re^2: Corrupted node by ambrus (Abbot) on Aug 19, 2009 at 08:50 UTC
Some passwords were published after the break-in, so in theory it's possible that someone who was curious logged in with the OP's password and then accidentally edited that node. I don't find this too likely though.	[reply]