News Source: http://www.smallbiztrends.com
Published: Feb 07, 2008 - 01:33 am
Story Found By: tamar 1569 Days ago
Category: Social Media
Well, I’m here to tell you it CAN happen to you.
This is a horror story you don’t want to read... but perhaps you should because it’s a lesson to never forget.
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ugly stuff - keep your WP software up to date!
This is becoming widespread and the hackers often do it without visible sign of entry. That is what happened 10 days ago to two of my blogs as described in another current Sphinn item, Wordpress Blog Hacked. They can usually get round the latest version of Wordpress, so you need to be vigilant and put in tougher security as well.
I used to own a site www.cheapsuppliesonline.com that got hacked. It was a small start up company selling eletronics and stuff. One day I come in and when the customer added the product to the shopping cart, it would come up as a hack (due to my security software). They also hacked every single page and file on my site with different links. Additionaly, I was informed from Bank of America that they set up a "phishing" account on my site and if I wouldnt have the security software installed, every customer that made a purchase would have got his numbers stolen. To make it short, it took me a lot of time and effort to try to fix everything, which never happened. I ended up crashing the whole site to protect my customers. Never ended up building the site up again though.
There’s some interesting stuff you can do with .htaccess to protect yourself from some of the problems, before they even break in.
I wish I could believe that, g1smd. My latest hacker modified the .htaccess file and I believe he probably got in through a hole that is not yet covered by the latest upgrade. My blog was using v. 2.3.2, which was the latest at the time.
Back in 2003 I lost £18,000 when my clients site got killed.. Well the site wasn’t hacked the server was.. I wasn’t the only one.. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2967749.stmMade headline on the news in 2003 as some 1,300 of us got lots our businesses / clients over night.. Live and learn..
its something you constantly have to worry about, especially if you run an e-comerce website!
@bwelford I did say it protects from "some" of the problems, but there are some that it cannot.
That’s just the motivation I needed to go and upgrade my Wordpress software today.
Lots of great information in this article. They also have another article in this blog that has tips and advice on the steps you can take to prevent WordPress hacking.