Title: Help – WordPress Hacked
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Help – WordPress Hacked

 *  [elpatre](https://wordpress.org/support/users/elpatre/)
 * (@elpatre)
 * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-wordpress-hacked/)
 * Hello,
 * I’m running a rather successful blog with over 5000 uniques every day, last night
   it was hacked. I’m currently competing in a contest and after getting spammed
   with nasty comments yesterday night from another contestant, I woke up this morning
   to find my blog down.
 * I would need your help asap please!
 * **The Problem:
    When opening the blog / or admin panel it only redirects to my
   blogs adress/wp-admin/install.php
 * What I did so far:
    – I have checked my DB and all tables seem to be still fine,
   in any case I run backups every 3 hours so that should be ok.
 * – the .htaccess file looks fine as well
 * I’m totally helpless, can someone please let me know what I need to fix to bring
   my blog back up?
 * Cheers and thanks!
    ElPatre

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 *  [Shane G.](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shane-g-1/)
 * (@shane-g-1)
 * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-wordpress-hacked/#post-1463889)
 * Hi,
 * Refer this article:
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_My_site_was_hacked](http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_My_site_was_hacked)
 * Thanks,
 * Shane G.
 *  Thread Starter [elpatre](https://wordpress.org/support/users/elpatre/)
 * (@elpatre)
 * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-wordpress-hacked/#post-1463893)
 * ok its fixed, someone damaged my wp_options table.. working again, but I would
   like to protect this against future hacks.
 * **How can I protect my wp_options table from hacking?**
 * Any body can please help?

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 * [hacked](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/hacked/)
 * [install.php](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/install-php/)
 * [wp-admin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/wp-admin/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 2 replies
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 * Last reply from: [elpatre](https://wordpress.org/support/users/elpatre/)
 * Last activity: [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-wordpress-hacked/#post-1463893)
 * Status: not resolved

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