I’ve Been Hacked- What Do I Do?
This morning I was logging into my blog to do a little writing. To my surprise, I saw my blog had been hacked. This has never happened to me before, so as you can imagine, I was a little freaked out by this. The hacker displayed a banner page with a message about Islamic religion and had some kind of Islamic singing in the background.
But the thing that worried me the most is that all of my sites were offline and hacked by the same person or people. Now, for my main site, the one that mattered most, I wasn’t too worried. I backup this site every day. But, this got me to thinking that all the rest of the backing up wasn’t current.
Now, I realize that not everyone backs up every day. But you should make this a habit anyway. Luckily for me, D9 hosting, where I have all of my sites hosted, was already aware of this problem and was actively taking measures to remedy it. Even though it is Sunday, they have fixed everyone’s sites that were hacked.
This still concerned me and I ended up changing passwords and such. But, they have backups of all of our sites, so that helps a lot.
Now, it occurred to me that not everyone even knows how to do a backup of their blog. I know I didn’t at first. And remarkably, that info isn’t the easiest to find either. Luckily, I belong to several great forums where I found the info quickly. But, for those that dont know how to backup WordPress, here you go.
Just go to your dashboard and look for TOOLS. Now, go into that and click on BACKUP. This will bring up the main backup menu. Now, configure it to backup the files you want and the frequency to backup those files. I go to the scheduled backup in the last box, include all the tables, schedule once daily and send to my email. This gives me an email with an attachment, which contains my WordPress backup files.
That’s it. You’re done. It’s so easy to set this up and you will always have the piece of mind that you can restore easily if something happens.
I want to thank Dan and Paula at D9 hosting for their fast action and excellent customer support in dealing with this issue. They have always fixed any problems I have experienced quickly and with the utmost attention to customer satisfaction. That’s why I’ll keep recommending them and their services.
Brilliantly helpful information, Patrick, thanks for that. Glad everything turned out ok. Backing up is such a necessity.
Enjoy the journey.
Mandy
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(Sure, please do.)
Brilliantly beneficial information, Patrick, thanks for that. Glad everything turned out ok. Backing up is such a necessity.
My facebook account has been hacked. I want to get my password back. But the hacker hacked my email. And I am sure that someone has hacked my account.
Last week,someone I know at my school hacked onto my my-space and changed some stuff around, like my picture and stuff.now what step i should be taken,Thanks.
How do you prevent from someone hacking into your computer and stealing data?
(You just need a good anti-virus program installed that updates frequently. P)
Last week,someone I know at my school hacked onto my my-space and changed some stuff around, like my picture and stuff.now what step i should be taken,Thanks.
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Hi Patrick, great post and very relevent.
I back everything up that i can. I had a bit of a scare earlier this year and have backed it all up ever since.
Hats off to D9, they really are on top of the game and so helpfull.
Best of luck to you Patrick,
Regards, Barry
A definitely useful post. I have a blog in WordPress and I don’t actually back it up. I didn’t even think about it. Now, I have to consider backing up as a necessity because if not, I might lose all my files. Anyway, thanks for the info.