It seems either you accidentally bulk-deleted the contents or it can be a case of site defacement. Do you have a recent backup of your site?
Contact your host.
If you do not have a db backup get one.
Thread Starter
Mike H
(@mtnweekly)
No bulk deletes on my end, “site defacement” as in hacked? That would suck but they left some of the stuff up??
GoDaddy is working on a restore to yesterday cost $150 and will take up to 7 days.. Wow.
What did I do wrong?
No bulk deletes on my end, “site defacement” as in hacked?
Yes. Just like hacking, but nothing malicious is left by the hacker (if it is not done by you). But possibly, they may leave loopholes for accessing your site for more sinister attacks.
Read: http://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress
Perhaps you deleted a user. If you delete the user that is the author of a page, that page is deleted. I actually just had this happen last night to one of my customers. She went in and did some cleanup, and in doing so, she deleted the original designer for the site. All of the pages, posts, menus, etc, that were created by the original designer are now gone.
Thread Starter
Mike H
(@mtnweekly)
I am guessing I got hacked, there is now a user listed as Admin1 with an email I never setup. Please help, who can I contact?
GoDaddy is working on a restore to yesterday cost $150 and will take up to 7 days.. Wow.
If that is being done, that should resolve the issue. But alert your host about a possible hacking so that they tighten security on the server side.
Thread Starter
Mike H
(@mtnweekly)
Thanks I went ahead and changed my password, As soon as the site comes back up I will call GoDaddy. Any other things I should look at doing?
As soon as the site comes back up I will call GoDaddy
Tell them now so that they remove everything from your site and restore the site from a backup prior to the attack. Otherwise, all files/folders may not be removed and that will leave loopholes for being hacked again.
Thread Starter
Mike H
(@mtnweekly)
GoDaddy is claiming the site was not hacked…
Possibly, but ask them how the posts were deleted? If that is not because of you, the problem is caused by something on their side.
Thread Starter
Mike H
(@mtnweekly)
GoDaddy is being very vague, par the course. At first they said there is no evidence of a hack. When I asked if I should change my ftp password they said it was not necessary as the person gained access from my wp-login.
Whoops you just told me the was no evidence.
I have initiated the backup to yesterday, hoping for the best. Just changed the secret key, thanks kmessinger
