Our site may have been hacked

  • Unknown's avatar
    2willisbloggers · Member ·

    A message we get (sometimes) when opening the site http://www.digupdeadrelatives.com is that the site is not secure … that it may be taken over for the purpose of stealing personal information. Can you help solve this problem???

    Gary

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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    mwinya · Member ·

    Hi there,

    These forums offer support to sites created on WordPress.com. I can see your http://www.digupdeadrelatives.com is self-hosted with an external provider (Dreamhost).

    As your site is not on WordPress.com, you will need to register and ask for support on the WordPress.org forums: https://wordpress.org/support/

    You can find out more about the differences between WordPress.com and WordPress.org here: https://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

    Best of luck finding a solution to the security issues.

  • kokkieh · Staff ·

    @mwinya

    I don’t know how you are pasting in the links in your reply, but you’re including a non-breaking space entity before each one that prevents them from being automatically hyperlinked. You’ll notice it if you highlight your reply in your browser and then right click ->View Selection Source.

    If you’re using a pre-prepared answer from something like a Word doc you might want to try stripping out any formatting you have there that might be invisibly adding this space.

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    mwinya · Member ·

    Hi Kokkieh,

    Thanks for suggesting why these links were not functioning correctly. I had been wondering why this issue had cropped up in a few replies.

    I have been using Apple Notes to record and store pre-written replies up to this point. I will start using .txt files and Sublime Text instead, to avoid this happening again.

    Matt

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