Title: Website Hack/Breach
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Website Hack/Breach

 *  [TheB741](https://wordpress.org/support/users/theb741/)
 * (@theb741)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-hackbreach/)
 * So my website is thelonetree.org . I was showing it to a “friend” and he seem
   interested. Well he went over to his laptop and did some things for about 15 –
   55 minutes, then showed me something. He breached my site, adding a small black
   happy face under the footer. If you look closely, you can see it. In the morning
   I saw it (May 2) and now it is not there. When it was there, I checked the footer.
   php file and found no face. How could he have breached me, and have can I revert
   a change such as this? (P.S. ~ He said he cannot find the login page, but he 
   might have done something with “View Source Information”) Any ideas?

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-hackbreach/#post-4875563)
 * I think your friend has been messing with you. He probably used a web developer
   like Firebug to add something to the page as displayed purely on that computer
   at that time. The site itself wouldn’t have been touched.
 *  Thread Starter [TheB741](https://wordpress.org/support/users/theb741/)
 * (@theb741)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-hackbreach/#post-4875579)
 * However, I opened it on another computer and it was there! How could this be?
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-hackbreach/#post-4875588)
 * Your site has not been hacked. [See for yourself](http://sitecheck.sucuri.net/results/thelonetree.org).
 *  Thread Starter [TheB741](https://wordpress.org/support/users/theb741/)
 * (@theb741)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-hackbreach/#post-4875589)
 * He un did the edit, however I want to know he cannot change greater things.
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-hackbreach/#post-4875593)
 * You could have a look at [Hardening_WordPress](http://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress).

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 * 5 replies
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 * Last reply from: [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * Last activity: [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-hackbreach/#post-4875593)
 * Status: not resolved

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