My Blog Was Hacked!

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April 16, 2008 · by Sonnie · Ask Sonnie, Blogging

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Apologies to Entrecard buddies, subscribers and visitors who failed to access this site. This blog was hacked resulting into downtime, a long one . Someone found a “window” at my wp-content folder thru a plugin (though I have disabled this one long time ago). The hacker managed to place a script in my index php resulting to cache-ing issues and downtime. Thanks to Yuga and Julius, I was assisted to put this blog up and kicking again. Though I’m knowledgeable in electronics, I have to admit I am a green horn on matters like these.

Let me share with you the advise given by e-buddies to prevent this from happening again. By the way, this blog is using WordPress version 2.5

1. Minimize use of plugins.
2. Uninstall and delete plugins (from your plugin folder) if will never be used again.
3. Upload a blank index.html to your plugin folder to prevent a hack.
4. Clean your php file from any traces of your plugin after disabling/deleting.

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7 Responses to “My Blog Was Hacked!”

1. jhay April 17, 2008 at 7:37 PM

   

   It’s a good thing your blog’s back up again. Curse those darn hackers.

   jhay’s last blog post..How to Globe Share-a-load

2. noemi April 17, 2008 at 7:54 PM

   

   wordpress blogs tend to get hacked these days. I have so many blogs. It’s so hard to keep track of these hacks. I should place a blank index.html . Thanks for the tip.

   noemi’s last blog post..Nominations now Open for the 2008 Philippine Blog Awards

3. Maki April 18, 2008 at 11:57 PM

   

   Wow, I’ll be putting that blank dummy index.html file soon. I never thought that blogs can be hacked this way that hackers can put some codes to affect your blog’s exposure to the worldwide web.

   I’m still using the older version of wordpress though…

   Maki’s last blog post..The Moon at 4/18/2008

4. Deimos Tel`Arin April 20, 2008 at 9:54 AM

   

   Sorry to hear that about that. O_O

   Glad to see that everything is okay now.

   Thanks for the tips!

   Deimos Tel`Arin’s last blog post..More than USD 7,000.00 to be won!

5. Dexter April 20, 2008 at 9:21 PM

   

   In addition to your tip.. A back up files is really necessary..

   Dexter’s last blog post..Wow I am one of Top Philippine Blogs

6. Felex Tan April 22, 2008 at 11:20 PM

   

   So scary,i am scared of it also but i seldom use plug in.With advance tech today,hackers can hack anything.

   Felex Tan’s last blog post..How to reduce Entrecard’s high bounce rate ??

7. Sonnie April 23, 2008 at 6:35 AM

   

   All,

   This is the 2nd time my blog was hacked, the 1st one when I was still using 2.3 version. It seems other bloggers have fun bringing down hapless blogs.