Comments on: Hacked

By: Tamsyn

Tamsyn — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 09:33:46 +0000

Don’t give up now…. I’ve only just found you!

By: Melinda | SuperWAHM

Melinda | SuperWAHM — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:08:57 +0000

I wondered about that when I received an rss email for the standard “This is a post”

As Veronica said, WP Datatbase Backup plugin is brilliant http://ilfilosofo.com/blog/wp-db-backup/ I have it set to automatically email me a copy of the database backup every week. You’ll need to tell it to include your uploads folder as well. Plus you’ll need to save your theme files manually.

What version of WP were you using? I know 8.4.2 had some serious security issues and a lot of sites were hacked, thought they’d fixed that with the updates though.

Deb, people don’t ‘select’ a site for hacking – they run a script that pulls sites automatically and hacks it.

By: Deb

Deb — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 10:04:13 +0000

Oh no! I admit my basic feeling is “I don’t need security because no-one would bother to hack me” but I second WordPress database backup. That’s terrible, I hope you feel better soon.

By: Veronica

Veronica — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:47:06 +0000

Don’t quit.

Have you tried google reader to recover your content? It would be a lot of copy/pasting, but the writing should still be there.

Also, a plugin called WP database backup – it sends you daily/weekly backups of your blog to your email.

By: Brenda

Brenda — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:37:07 +0000

Oh noes! That’s a sucking suck Bec. Argh!

Whatever you do, I hope you won’t give up blogging forever. Because you are an awesome writer.XO