My blog is hosted by HostPapa, which up until now has been a fantastic host.
Unfortunately, a few days ago (and I didn’t notice until this evening) this host got hacked and many WordPress sites were replaced with the ingenious slogan “Hacked by Hacker.”
Luckily, I was able to quickly reset my admin password and discovered by blog database was intact (it was a host-wide rather than targeted attack) and replace the theme, fixing everything.
My other sites on this server: bushfield.ca and secularstudents.ca were also hit, but my home subdomain ian.bushfield.ca somehow avoided the attack.
For now, I’ve reverted to an older theme to keep the site running.
I guess I got off lucky this time but it’s still annoying to deal with at 1 am on a Saturday night after a few glasses of wine.
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Just to clarify: no, this host didn’t get hacked
– I just helped a friend to fix her sites on HostPapa.
Canada’s HostPapa and Australia’s Net Registry were the two hosting providers who were hit.
Yes, sadly I had to fix quite a few sites at these two hosts over this past month. Quite a few upset phone calls…
Seems both hosts were targeted by a gang of hackers.
Best Regards,
Jim Walker
The Hack Repair Guy
Hi,
How did you manage to solve the issue?
I replaced the “hacked” files and reseted my admin pw (as well as FTP and cpanel) however only my homepage loads, all the posts/pages and everything apart from the home page gives a 404. I have two sites and both have the same issue.
I would really appreciate your help! My site: http://konyv-olvaso.hu
Thanks in advance,
Brian
nice wordpress story for your site on Hacked by Hacker……..