Market Leverage Hacker Updates – Boooo

So by now I'm sure many of you are wondering what ever happened to the Market Leverage issue I had.

If you don't know, the basic to the story is that both my friend and I were hacked and had our jump links replaced with Market Leverage affiliate links. We decided to contact them and try to get as much information about the hacker as possible...

My friend's site was redirecting to the market leverage hacker affiliate for just a few hours while mine was down a bit longer.

At first, Market Leverage seemed to be somewhat helpful. They called me and my friend and told us the normal, "We can't tell you anything blah blah." The only way we would be able to get information is to sue John Doe and get a court order to view Market Leverages log files / affiliate information.

They were trying to be helpful while really saying, "You're not going to get anything..."

Assuming that I would want to pay thousands of dollars to try to regain around $x,xxx in lost advertising revenue for a lawyer to try and go through the process...

Well today I got an email from Market Leverage saying that they pretty much found nothing.

What actually made me laugh was when Market Leverage told me that the hacker affiliate of theirs that the traffic was going to denied all claims. Duh...

What's even more interesting is that my friend provided them with a log of 300+ unique IP addresses that came to his site during the time that it was being redirected to the Market Leverage hacker affiliate link.

According to their logs, not a single ip matched for the time period... Hmm.

What's even better is that Market Leverage said that the affiliates did not see any abnormal jump in affiliate commissions and so they can't find any connection.

So apparently, to Market Leverage neither event ever actually happened it seems.

All in all, Market Leverage has TRIED to do what they can but at least in this case, the person who did wrong walks away with no correction and nothing done to them. Lame...