Has my Ning site been hacked?

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  mikebooth · Member · Jul 31, 2012 at 5:40 am

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  A tasteless paragraph disguised as content but actually advertising a loan (shark) company appears right under the heading of my Ning site: http://printworkshopcentral.wordpress.com. This has affected my traffic radically.
  Blog url: http://printworkshopcentral.wordpress.com/

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  kathrynwp · Staff · Jul 31, 2012 at 2:33 pm

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  It looks like after your domain name printworkshopcentral.com expired back on May 31, 2012, a spammer re-registered it with GoDaddy and is now pointing it back to your WordPress.com address, with the spam text and links injected. You can see the Russian nameservers on your domain here:

  http://who.wildwestdomains.com/whois.aspx?domain=printworkshopcentral.com

  Domain servers in listed order:
  NS1.HOST-MOSCOW.RU
  NS2.HOST-MOSCOW.RU

  You could try contacting GoDaddy’s abuse team to report this: http://support.godaddy.com/

  You’ll also probably want to remove all references to the printworkshopcentral.com domain from your site, such as the link on your header and elsewhere.

  Just let us know if you need further assistance.