![]() As you can imagine, my client wasn’t pleased and had to drop everything else I was doing and fix it straight away. This happened to me when a school site I managed was redirecting to a dating site. This will probably be a site you don’t want your users being taken to. Sometimes hackers will add a script that redirects people to another site when they visit yours. If your theme isn’t from a reputable source and you’ve recently updated it, that could be the culprit. If your footer is full of links that you didn’t add, and especially if those links are hidden or in a tiny font size, you could have been hacked.īefore you assume you’ve been hacked, check with other site administrators or editors, to be sure they haven’t accidentally made the changes. The changes may be more subtle, maybe adding spurious content, or links to unsavory sites. If your site looks completely different and isn’t using your theme, it’s probably been hacked. One form of hacking is to replace the homepage with a static page. ![]() If you’re unable to reset your password, your user account could have been removed, which is a sign of hacking. Hackers sometimes remove users or change user passwords to prevent access. Even if you can, you may still have been hacked and you’ll have to do a bit more investigating. So before you assume you’ve been hacked, try resetting your password. ![]() However, it’s more likely that you’ve just forgotten your password. If you can’t log in to your site, it may be a sign that your site has been hacked. ![]()
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