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Joomla site hacked!
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- Sheldon
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- prim
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- JEM
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Seems to be back up?
As a precaution, always keep your site backed up...
www.akeebabackup.com/ - Thanks,
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- Craig Crossland
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Was the site up-to-date?
Defiantly do what Jem said, I once got a site hacked that used Joomla and I lost everything. It is defiantly worth taking 10 mins to back up your site. - Love to Play Bingo Movie Drinking Games
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- CMYKreative
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Does your hosting company not provide (at the very least) weekly backups? If not, you should think about changing hosting company. They should easily be able to restore the server to a time prior to the 'hacking'.
It's also worth keeping your own backups as mentioned above, and for Joomla sites, Akeeba Backup (and their other tools) are a must have. - CMYKreative : Graphic Design , Web Design , Printing , Banner Ads , Branding and more.
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- Sheldon
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Thanks for the advice guys.
HostGator had the site back up within an hour. I just made a request via the chat module on their site. Very impressive service. :cheesy:
No one probably saw it, and I removed the link, but their was a bunch of flags and junk on the home page and something that said "site hacked by :::SNIPER:::"
HostGator said it was a "Joomla password being compromised by a brute force attack."
Analytics show some hits from: cyber-warrior.org/
Haven't they got anything better to do...
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- CMYKreative
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HostGator are usually very good with sorting things out.
For your hacking, try installing this:
www.akeebabackup.com/software/admin-tools.html
The 'firewall' tool is especially useful within this component to prevent unauthorised access, but you'll have to play around with settings to get things working in the way you want to. - CMYKreative : Graphic Design , Web Design , Printing , Banner Ads , Branding and more.
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