Been having some problems with this site, it appears ITF was hacked and whacked. It wouldn’t load at all, and worse yet I was totally locked out, I couldn’t even log in to the WordPress admin area.
When I’d view source I could see a bunch of alien javascript code, a ton of it. I FTP’d in and found a bunch of hacker code on a lot of the WP files. All my theme files (save one) were compromised with it too. I cleaned them up, re-uploaded them, and wham they were immediately corrupted again.
I finally deleted all the plugins (most of them were corrupted too), re-uploaded the cleaned theme files, and it came back online. I cleaned up the plugins and so far everything seems to be working ok.
So why did this happen? I’m running the latest version of WordPress. However, not that long ago I was hit with this same type of thing, and that was before I had upgraded. And when I was finally able to get back in today, I found a dozen or so very suspicious user accounts with very similar names and url’s. I deleted them of course.
What I suspect is that they still had their foot in the door from the last hack, and that’s how they compromised this current version of WordPress (2.5.1).
Hopefully I have it taken care of, it’s been a royal pain. Thanks for nothing you slacker hackers.
4 Responses
June 3rd, 2008 at 8:53 pm
Glad you are back! Those slacker hackers of yours tried to download virulent programs onto my computer both times when they were at work, too (thanks to Norton for protecting me when I visit your site).
You are now back–bigger and better, I hope!
June 3rd, 2008 at 9:02 pm
And I forgot to say, thanks for the heads up Ellen!
June 5th, 2008 at 12:34 am
Join the club. My WP install was hacked as well, about a year ago. I guess it’s all part of using popular software, same reason why people with nothing better to do have written 50,000+ viruses for Windows.
June 10th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
At least one of my blogs was also hacked, but not to the point of taking it down. I’m glad you’re up and running again!