HACKED?
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I am a new blogger and recently published my first post. Well yesterday I opened up my account and noticed someone anonymously messaged me “Cant read any of your writing, fix it please.” The writing from the post itself is also completely wiped out. Is there anyway the admin would do this? Also, how can I retrieve it. Thank you.
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You say that the writing from the post is wiped out. Does that mean the post itself is still there, just blank?
If so, you should find your list of post revisions and see if you can restore the post to how it was before it was deleted.
These revisions will also show who modified the post, so take note of who wiped out the post content and follow up with them. Their account is probably compromised, so they should change their password to prevent something like this from happening again.
Hopefully this works and you’ll be able to quickly get your content back!
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Hello!
I appreciate your help. I was able to restore my writing. I looked at who deleted the content from my post and it said that I made the last revision. Is there anyway someone else could have hacked in and done this? I am positive that I did not. Also, I did not give anyone my password or make them official users.
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I’m glad that you were able to get your writing back!
It’s difficult to know for sure what caused the posts to get blanked out. In my experience, websites that are hacked tend to have their content replaced with spammy junk, not just blanked out, so I would guess that the trouble you had was due to a bug somewhere and not malicious activity.
Still, it is possible that someone has gotten their hands on your account login details somehow and used your account to mess with your blog posts. I recommend that you change your account password just to be safe!
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