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Original poster

My blog has been hacked. <wail>

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FrauLindor · 25/09/2011 12:14

Or rather the website of the webhost has been hacked.

Fuckers.

Why do people do this? What do they gain from it?

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TrillianAstra · 25/09/2011 12:35

InMotion?

TrillianAstra · 25/09/2011 12:35

It'll only be the front page, you should be able to replace it pretty easily.

www.ilovefreesoftware.com/25/articles/inmotion-hosting-hacked.html

Tee2072 · 25/09/2011 12:40

Well, FFS!

They gain notoriety and fist bumps from their equally living in their mum's basements and living on coke and crisps with no girl in sight friends.

In other words, nothing but cred. Not like they hacked a bank or something!

I hope they get it sorted soon.

Change your passwords!

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FrauLindor · 25/09/2011 12:44

I cannot access my cpanel to do that though.

Someone on Twitter posted this but I am totally lost

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Tee2072 · 25/09/2011 12:51

Do you have FTP access to your site? Or is totally through CPanel?

Because you can only fix it the way that site says to if you can get to your root directory.

TrillianAstra · 25/09/2011 12:52

I am only saying what I have been told, "pretty easily" is of course relative... hope they get it sorted soon, although being California based they won't be out of bed for a while.

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FrauLindor · 25/09/2011 12:56

Ok, have cpanel back

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Tee2072 · 25/09/2011 12:57

Whew!

I would, if I were you, ask them if you can have FTP access to your site as well. That way you are not reliant on CPanel to make changes when things like this happen. As Trill said, the company is based in California so if they ever get hacked even worse it could take much longer to be able to get into CPanel.

Original poster
FrauLindor · 25/09/2011 12:57

what is the root directory?

How do I fix the index thing?

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Tee2072 · 25/09/2011 13:03

I have no idea what your CPanel looks like, but do you have a list of files in there?

If yes, then open index.html and, provided the code in there looks like that that website shows, replace it with the code at the bottom.

If it doesn't, or if you can't find the index file, you'll have to wait until the host gets things fixed for you.

Tee2072 · 25/09/2011 13:04

If you want to trust me, you could PM me your cpanel address and log in and I can take look for you.

Original poster
FrauLindor · 25/09/2011 13:10

Tee, will do that. I trust you.

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Original poster
FrauLindor · 25/09/2011 13:10

I have got rid of the hack, but cannot get the index thing to work

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Tee2072 · 25/09/2011 13:10

Bwhahaha! ::rubs hands together::

Grin
Original poster
FrauLindor · 25/09/2011 13:17

Do you need the cpanel link?

I just reported it to MNHQ. Ignore my strange message, MNHQ. I clicked report instead of message poster.

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Tee2072 · 25/09/2011 13:19

Yes, I need the CPanel link!

Original poster
FrauLindor · 25/09/2011 13:25

Have sent you everything, Tee

If I get a big credit card bill from John Lewis, I will know who to turn to

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Tee2072 · 25/09/2011 13:29

Fixed!

My husband says you owe me a £1 as I shouldn't work for free. I pointed out it took me 5 minutes, hence the £1. Grin

And how did you know it would be John Lewis?!? [looks suspicious]

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FrauLindor · 25/09/2011 13:31

:o

GENIUS

Thank you so much.

I owe you much more than a £1

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Tee2072 · 25/09/2011 13:33

Really, you had it! They just change the fix and you missed that part!

At least, the code that I replaced looked like the code from that website.

breadfortheboys · 25/09/2011 13:41

So glad it is fixed

Original poster
FrauLindor · 25/09/2011 14:08

Have scheduled back up now, didn't have it set up on new blog yet.

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FrauLindor · 25/09/2011 14:17

Right, someone has just posted this

Webhostinghubs is a subsidiary of Inmotion hosting and both were hacked this morning at 4:30 EST (I was working on a client site)many other reseller of these companies.

Changing your index file is just step one. You need to re-install WordPress (manual re-install) as the hacker has modified a few files in the core as well. As soon as you get it running, export all your content, database and wp-content directory and wait for the next attack. If in-motion decides to backup everything, you will lose your latest posts and modifications so back up yourself before they get to it.

*

I have exported content, as stated here:

When you click the button below WordPress will create an XML file for you to save to your computer.

This format, which we call WordPress eXtended RSS or WXR, will contain your posts, pages, comments, custom fields, categories, and tags.

Once you?ve saved the download file, you can use the Import function in another WordPress installation to import this site.

Choose what to export

All content This will contain all of your posts, pages, comments, custom fields, terms, navigation menus and custom posts.

Posts

Pages

Recipes

Recipe Steps

Recipe Ingredients

**

Is that what he means?

Should I reinstall WP? What does that actually mean? Newly download?

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Original poster
FrauLindor · 25/09/2011 14:20

Just noticed that my dashboard is not there. Was that when I was faffing about earlier?

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LeBOF · 25/09/2011 14:35
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