Watch Out For Hackers!

byDarrikM7

149 followers

10 years ago

Hi everyone,

I spent about 3 hours this morning with my hosting service One.com as my website had been hacked. One.com had temporarily disabled my website until I resolved everything. Here is what I had to do in order to correct the issue:

• Create a hosting password for logging into my website when putting in the domain.
• Delete about 50 files that were scanned and found to be infected from the database.
• Change all passwords for my site including FTP passwords.
• Re-install all of the wordpress content (Wordpress Content and Wordpress Includes folders)
• Re-install all themes and plugins in their updated versions.
• Remove a redirect code put in for mobile devices (caught this last second).
• Remove the password from my domain so the site is public.

Again, this took about 3 hours to complete and find all of the plugins and themes. I couldn't just update them because I was completely locked out of the admin panel.

This tends to happen most with plugins and themes creating security holes. Make sure all plugins and themes are up-to-date. I would also research any plugins/themes you add to make sure this does not happen a lot with the specific plugin/theme.

This was a big chunk of time I did not want to spend on fixing my site with One.com support. Just make sure you are aware people can hack your site and upload malicious files!