Comments on: Inside Look A Hacked WordPress Blog [Video]

By: Alex Sysoef

Alex Sysoef — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:58:30 +0000

Thanks for sharing Allen!

Hopefully this helps people to realize the importance of upgrades. Personal accounts always help people start taking action!

By: Lee

Lee — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:11:09 +0000

Hey Alan,
Thanks very much for the informative videos/post. I too have found-out the hard way how valuable backing-up can be. My situation was I had loaded a new theme and suddenly everything was blank!! Fortunately, my host was able to delete the offending theme and restored the default theme, using a backup from the previous week. So not so bad…
Keep up the good posts!
Thanks
Lee

By: Andy Michaels

Andy Michaels — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:16:42 +0000

Hi Alan,

It’s one thing to be hacked into and have you’re blog destroyed and it’s another thing to want to share it with us so that we do not become the next victims.

For that I am grateful. I will ensure that I upgrade immediately and that I regularly backup my folders.

Thanks for the heads up. Its really appreciated.

Andy

By: SEO Videos

SEO Videos — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 03:05:45 +0000

Yikes, Alan! Sorry to hear that happened to you.

Those SPAM comments are horrible! I mean, how good could their conversions possibly be with crap comments like that (as far as direct traffic is concerned, anyway)?!

By: Loretta

Loretta — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:12:07 +0000

This seems to have been happening a lot recently. Thank you for sharing your story of what happened and putting it out there for everyone to see. Security updates and backups are definitely important things that we all need to think about!

By: Rob Canyon

Rob Canyon — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 23:32:37 +0000

Alan,

Great info… Personally, I always just upgraded wordpress whenever a new version was available.

Kind of wondered the reason or if I’d screw anything up.

But I guess they do the security patches for good reason.

Darn spammers,

Rob

By: Mitch

Mitch — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 05:14:41 +0000

I thank you for sharing this video. I had been waiting to upgrade all my blogs until I saw the warning last week. I had two blogs to update, as I’d already taken care of it on one of them. WordPress had been updating every two weeks, but this one has passed that time period, so I figured it was time.

I’m sorry it happened to you in the first place, but hopefully some folks will watch this and learn.

By: mickfallon

mickfallon — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 03:08:41 +0000

Hi Alan thanks for sharing this valuable post I have been getting a fair bit of spam lately but as luck has it I have the latest version of word press.
glad to see your sorted now ,
oh by the way i’m gonna tag you for your efforts.
don’t blame me its garry simpsons idea but its a load of fun
cheers mick

By: Glenn

Glenn — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 18:13:05 +0000

Hey Alan
Thank you so very much about the above information. Sorry about what happened to you but on the other hand I learned a lot from that occurance. Going to update my blog now. Once again thanks
Glenn

By: Bridgett

Bridgett — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 12:11:19 +0000

Alan, Excellent video messages. I’m sorry that happened to you but what a great lesson to share. I know that many people don’t realize that outdated versions of WordPress, plugins and even themes can make your blog vulnerable. Thanks for putting this info out there!