{"id":6844132,"date":"2015-12-12T21:09:08","date_gmt":"2015-12-12T21:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/site-was-hacked-8\/"},"modified":"2016-08-30T21:16:18","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T21:16:18","slug":"site-was-hacked-8","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/site-was-hacked-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Site was hacked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I built a site at Register.com and it got hacked, so they suspended the site. <\/p>\n<p>They couldn&#8217;t tell me what was going on, other than there is a script running on the site that is producing large amounts of spam and then deleting itself.<\/p>\n<p>Before I waste a ton of time, I thought I&#8217;d ask and see if anyone has experienced something similar, or has any other information on this?<\/p>\n<p>Can I just change my user passwords in phpMyAdmin? or do I have to run some sort of antivirus software? I&#8217;m not even sure how to do that on a server. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m using:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dustland Express Child Theme<\/li>\n<li>akismet<\/li>\n<li>breadcrumb-navtxt<\/li>\n<li>contact form 7<\/li>\n<li>enable media replace<\/li>\n<li>ml-slider<\/li>\n<li>updraftplus (has a ton of log errors)<\/li>\n<li>yoast wordpress seo<\/li>\n<li>wp super cache<\/li>\n<li>wp super cache clear cache menu<\/li>\n<li>wp vi duplicate posts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Any info\/help would be greatly appreciated, or even if you know of any security issues with any of these plugins. Thanks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-6844132","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-hacked","topic-tag-script","topic-tag-site"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/6844132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/6844132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6844132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}