I’ve Been Hacked
Feb 26th, 2008 by Martin
Well it was a few weeks ago now but i’m still feeling bitter.
how i got hacked
I’m not to sure how i got hocked but it was more than likely because i hadn’t updated my version of wordpress to the latest version so someone probably got in via an Wordpress hole.
What did the little bastard do?
I first noticed something was up when my incoming traffic was looking really strange. People were coming in to the site via porn/spammy keywords in Google, this was really wierd as i have no inbound links from porn sites that i know of.
I viewed the source of the home page and there it was. A div tag had been put on the footer of each page, the contents of the div was links to porn websites and placed to the far right of the site off the page so people couldn’t see the links, just engines.
Obviously i removed the div tag but i’ve lost all traffic and ranks i had on Google, great thaks alot you little toss pot who did this. But dont worry i will bounce back, i’ve been working on some other website projects but ill get back to writing regular content once i get the status of my sites sorted.
That’s really unfortunate. That happened to one of my sites too. Google should have an Arbitration/Re-assessment section, where victims are a given a second chance to redeem themselves.
Cheers David
It’s not a nice experience, especially as my traffic and earnings weren’t doing to bad.
This has become a regular affair unless you take some security measures.