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1. NoahY
   Member
   Posted 8 months ago #

   Last night I wrote a mildly controversial blog post about religion on my weblog, and this morning I woke up to find that my display name had been changed to the name of a fanatic religious leader. The name was actually added to the user_meta database; deleting that value reverted my display name back to my username.

   How could this happen and what can I do to protect against it?

2. Christine
   Moderator
   Posted 8 months ago #

   Oh my that sounds terrible...

   It sounds like your site was hacked. Have a look at this info http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_My_site_was_hacked

   Hopefully this helps.

3. NoahY
   Member
   Posted 6 months ago #

   Thank you, I'll look into it... I did take some steps in the meantime, and now it has happened again. Pretty terrible.

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