Title: Backend corrupted after malware attack
Last modified: October 21, 2022

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# Backend corrupted after malware attack

 *  [silente08](https://wordpress.org/support/users/silente08/)
 * (@silente08)
 * [3 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backend-corrupted-after-malware-attack/)
 * Hi!
 * The website I manage has recently been attacked through the malware IOptimize.
   For about a week now (first occurrence seems to have been October 13th), all 
   kinds of corrupted files have been uploaded to my webspace. The website itself
   has always been perfectly fine and is still usable. After I got alerted by the
   webhoster, I first changed all the passwords. But the suspicious uploads continued
   and today I was not able to use the admin dashboard anymore (basically, all styling
   is lost and all of the links lead to Error 403 Forbidden). Now I have deleted
   all uploaded files I could find and tried to reset htaccess and index.php. However,
   the problem persists: the website works fine, but I cannot edit it anymore or
   access anything in the admin dashboard. For the worst case, I do have a backup(
   five months old, but that would not be tragic), but what else can I do to get
   the backend going again?
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fbackend-corrupted-after-malware-attack%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  [lisa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/contentiskey/)
 * (@contentiskey)
 * [3 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backend-corrupted-after-malware-attack/#post-16123309)
 * Review this guide for steps to follow if site has been hacked/infected with malware.
 * > [FAQ My site was hacked](https://wordpress.org/support/article/faq-my-site-was-hacked/)
 *  Thread Starter [silente08](https://wordpress.org/support/users/silente08/)
 * (@silente08)
 * [3 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backend-corrupted-after-malware-attack/#post-16123528)
 * Hm, it looks like completely deleting the .htaccess has solved the issue for 
   now. I will go through some more steps to make sure this does not happen again!

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 * Last activity: [3 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backend-corrupted-after-malware-attack/#post-16123528)
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