Title: Strange Formatting Issue
Last modified: November 2, 2016

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# Strange Formatting Issue

 *  [teewrighty](https://wordpress.org/support/users/teewrighty/)
 * (@teewrighty)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/strange-formatting-issue/)
 * Hey Word Pressers,
 * I’ve had [http://www.rapnews.co.uk](http://www.rapnews.co.uk) running on WordPress
   for years.
 * The site is somewhat retired these days but kept live for historical purposes.
 * I’ve updated to the latest version of WordPress, but have started noticing big
   chunks of line breaks in a lot of my blog posts.
 * For example –
 * [http://rapnews.co.uk/?p=1176](http://rapnews.co.uk/?p=1176)
 * Looking into these pages’ html, there are lots of nasty ad code like this:
 * [cheap michael kors handbags](http://www.cheapfakemichaelkors.com/)
    [michael kors outlet](http://www.cheapfakemichaelkors.com/)
   [cheap michael kors outlet](http://www.cheapfakemichaelkors.com/) [cheap michael kors](http://www.cheapmichaelkors.cc/)
 * I was wondering if you could tell me how this has happened?
 * How can I undo all of it across each affected page?
 * And how can I prevent this moving forward?
 * Thanks so much!
    Tony.

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 *  [Clayton James](https://wordpress.org/support/users/claytonjames/)
 * (@claytonjames)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/strange-formatting-issue/#post-8392704)
 * The site has been hacked for the purpose of SEO spamming. Carefully follow [this guide](https://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_My_site_was_hacked).
   When you’re done, you may want to implement some (if not all) of [the recommended security measures](https://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress).

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 1 reply
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Clayton James](https://wordpress.org/support/users/claytonjames/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/strange-formatting-issue/#post-8392704)
 * Status: not resolved

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