Workb3nch
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Hi all,
Some experience shared, I've been building sites for over 15 years and until today have never been the victim of an aggressive site hack.
Today, four of my sites were hacked and loaded with rogue redirect scripts to god knows what. Luckily I have a very good hosting provider and they installed backups pre-attack within a few email exchanges.
The vulnerability? A WordPress plugin that was not kept updated and allowed hackers a back door into the database to take control of the sites, I couldn't login, totally locked out.
Lesson from the story - careful what plugins you install, make sure everything is kept updated, get good hosts and make sure you have a backup
Some experience shared, I've been building sites for over 15 years and until today have never been the victim of an aggressive site hack.
Today, four of my sites were hacked and loaded with rogue redirect scripts to god knows what. Luckily I have a very good hosting provider and they installed backups pre-attack within a few email exchanges.
The vulnerability? A WordPress plugin that was not kept updated and allowed hackers a back door into the database to take control of the sites, I couldn't login, totally locked out.
Lesson from the story - careful what plugins you install, make sure everything is kept updated, get good hosts and make sure you have a backup
