My WordPress has been Hacked! How to Get it Back
Your WordPress website got hacked? Don’t worry you are at the right place. In this article, we will discuss about fixing a hacked WordPress site.
The worst thing happened, when you entered to your blog and tried to open it but you have a warning message saying that your site has been hacked. OMG. …… What to do now?
Of course, now you wonder how to recover the hacked WordPress site.
You were running your website on WordPress CMS and you have been hacked recently, don’t panic, take deep breath and get relax and try to identify the problem. First thing you have to do is to figure out whether your site has actually been hacked or not.
Yes, obviously it is the first thing you need to know.
There are plugins to detect whether your website was infected or not. For me one of the best tools to identify the WordPress infections is “Sucuri”. In addition, by using Sucuri WordPress plugin you will get alert messages every time when someone will try to attack on your website.
How to identify if your website has actually been hacked?
Identify your website if:
? Your website home page is blank or displaying “You have been hacked” message.
? All content and pages has been removed from your site.
? You see unknown things like content, advertisements, pornography materials on your website header and footer.
? Website redirection to some other sources (spam websites).
? Your web host sending you emails about spam and other malicious activities.
? You search on google “site:example.com” and getting indexed pages and content that looks malicious.
Now you are sure that you have actually been hacked. So what next thing you can do to get your WordPress website back. Check below.