PCRemiX – Back from the Grave! Part 2
Last April my site has been brought down to exactly 4 days due to hosting issues. Now my site faced another battle but with a different opponent. Someone hacked PCRemiX! but unfortunately for him/her my precious blog was brought to life again.
For the past few months, I’ve been super busy with my work. I didn’t notice that my site was down for 2 1/2 days. Early this afternoon, when I check my traffic counter, I noticed that I have no traffic since Wednesday; that made me think. I know I update my blog a little less than before but I’m pretty sure that I still have lots of daily traffic.
So with a frown face, I started checking everything, First, I checked the database name on my wp-config file and see if there some erroneous changes. When I found no error, next I checked the username and password. There I saw the problem, my username and password have changed. I kept thinking if I did any changes but I can’t recall anything. So with a haunch of being hacked, I immediately change the username and password on my SQL database.
I thought everything was fine as I already access my account. But I was surprised to find out that my site, PCRemiX already has different content, contents that I didn’t know where it came from. Luckily for me I have a full backup of my site and I restore full back up of database and files that took almost half of the day. Finally, my site was up again.
After this incident I quickly changed my wordpress and hosting password and perform another full site backup again. Hopefully this will be the last, but even if this happen again I know that I’m prepared. Happy that my site is back online again.
As I always say no one is safe from those kind of people or any tragedy that might happen to your blog. The best way to protect and prevent those things from happening is to make sure that your blog are secure. Backup, Backup and Backup!
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16 Comments
Hurray! Good to hear you’re back.
I kept checking your blog since Wednesday or Thursday and I thought you just had problems with your hosting
Cheers!
it’s nice to see you back again….thank’s yuor blog is veryfull….
Thanks… it’s really nice to be back…again
good to see you are back and ready to rock. Thanks for the post. It is awesome. I love this blog
Thanks, I just hope this is the last time
I really like your blog and i respect your work. I’ll be a frequent visitor.
You are right my friend backup is really very important and it’s good that your site is safe now but you should check it before some time otherwise you know very well that what could be happened.
yes thank you. I always take all the necessary preventive measure to secure my site.
At least you had a working backup. So many people, even if they do back up, don’t check that they can restore the backup easily – myself included. I found out how important it was to check your backups after a virus on my laptop forced a complete reformat of the hard drive. Although I had most of the data in version control, I didn’t have much of the configuration information and so I spent hours reconfiguring things.
Well done on getting the site sorted.
Glad you made a back-up. I had a similar experience a while ago and also made a backup of my sites database but unfortunately that backup when I restored it was over a month old and a lot happended in one month. Backing data up is dull but its loads easier than recoverying it!
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I agree
You can only appreciate the importance of backing up your data AFTER a disaster strikes. I blow up my computer several times a year and have learned the hard way that backing up my data is an absolute necessity. Since I have kids, I also use keyloggers to be able to know what sites they go to and what kind of correspondence they are engaged in. Some people consider keyloggers to be controversial as they think it invades the childs privacy, as a parent my job is to make sure that my family remains safe.
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yeah always pick a admin password that’s hard to guess
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Thanks for sharing this article. I will update my blog regularly.
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