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Your website has been hacked, and you didn't even know it! - Juice Marketing and Design

Your website has been hacked, and you didn’t even know it!


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“Your website has been hacked, and you didn’t even know it!”

Unfortunately, that’s the news that I’ve had to deliver to quite a few clients lately who host their websites on “shared” web hosting services, or hosting companies that do not actively update their clients’ websites.

Most recently, I was moving a client’s website to a Managed WordPress Hosting service, and I logged in to grab a backup of the site to move. As soon as I looked at the files, I knew instantly that they’d been hacked.

hacked_wordpress_files

I stare at WordPress files all day long, so that file named indonesia.php stuck out like a sore thumb because it didn’t belong with WordPress files.

I was hesitant to open it up, but I did and luckily it wasn’t anything dangerous … just mischievous.

hacked_wordpress_file2

If you read my last blog post answering the question “Is WordPress Safe?” you’d know that I listed three common reasons hackers hack websites. Here’s a review:

  1. Redirect – send website traffic to another site, such as selling knock-off sunglasses or medicine, etc.
  2. Deliver Mal-ware – infect your browser with pop-ups and other annoying behaviors.
  3. Relay Spam – use your website to send spam email.

In this case, I’m going to add a new reason to the list …

For fun!

That’s right, you heard me correctly … many hackers just hack sites for fun. It’s a contest, and they post their exploits on websites with a scoreboard ranking hacking groups with the highest number of hacked websites per week.

So this particular website that I recovered had been hacked just for fun.

It was hacked months ago!

This is the important part … the website had been hacked almost three months ago!

The owners of the website hadn’t updated their plugins in months, and as a result a security vulnerability was exploited by this hacker. It’s a good thing the hacker did not do anything more malicious!

“So how do I know if my website has been hacked?”

We’ve had several clients recently call Juice Marketing asking about website re-designs, and in the course of looking at their current website, we discover that their website had been hacked and was either relaying spam or redirecting to other sites for a long time.

In light of all this hacking activity, we are now offering a quick “check up” service.

Get peace of mind knowing your WordPress website is safe.

Fill out this form, and we’ll check your site for you.

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