My website www.hogarthbrown.com has been stolen! Someone called (re has taken it

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  contact959534597 · Member · May 30, 2018 at 9:22 am

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  I need my website back. It has all my artwork and books etc on it. My C.V and everything. It’s my whole platform. How could someone steal it when I use antivirus software?

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  staartmees · Member · May 30, 2018 at 10:02 am

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  What make you think your site has been stolen? Your site shows ‘Access denied’. Also it seems your site is not on the wordpress.com platform but was made with the standalone version of wordpress.org. You need to contact your hostingprovider to solve this problem.

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  contact959534597 · Member · May 30, 2018 at 10:19 am

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  Ok, thank you. I forgot that there is WordPress.org.

  I have a friend that hosts my website: http://www.hogarthbrown.com

  And I’ve whatsapped him to see if he knows anything. He’s in the U.S.A so will be asleep at the moment.
  Why would access be denied? I’m just spooked right now.

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  gemmacevans · Member · May 31, 2018 at 7:45 am

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  Hi contact959534597,

  That’s correct — hogarthbrown.com is a WordPress.org site hosted by 1&1, rather than WordPress.com:

  WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org

  The site isn’t hosted by us so I’m unable to say why you are seeing an “Access denied” error. If you are unable to access the site at all, please contact your hosting provider for help. They should be able to provide more information about the error message you are seeing.

  Best of luck!