&gt; The content left little doubt on the origin of the attack. I had sent an email to one of the most notorious opponents to the Chinese regime. It retaliated mercilessly.<p>Wait what?<p>Your blog becomes the target of common everyday run-of-the-mill comment spam, and you just immediately assume this is a State Sponsored attack? Please... you, and your blog are really not that important.<p>And we&#x27;re supposed to just accept the Chinese government monitors all monk&#x27;s email inboxes, and then launches attacks against anyone who dares email them? Ya right... If the Chinese government was going to go through that much hassle, why not just shut down or intercept&#x2F;delete all inbound email coming to the monks? Or prevent the Monks from responding?<p>The much more plausible narrative is this blogger had an outdated Wordpress install, and some bots pwned his server in a completely unrelated scenario.<p>Checking his blog, he is indeed running an outdated Wordpress install (even after the attack!)[1].<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;builtwith.com&#x2F;?https%3a%2f%2fmondaynote.com%2f" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;builtwith.com&#x2F;?https%3a%2f%2fmondaynote.com%2f</a>