Was my blog hacked? cybject.wordpress.com?

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  dccohen · Member · Aug 19, 2013 at 3:46 am

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  Suddenly, a pop-up box appeared on my blog cybject.wordpress.com.
  It says “restricted area” and links to the site http://newtech.aurum3.com.
  I have no idea how it got there? Did my site get hacked? If so what can I do?

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

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  amightywp · Member · Aug 19, 2013 at 10:03 pm

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  Hi there,

  No, it doesn’t appear that your site has been hacked.

  Instead, in your side bar, the fourth image from the bottom was linked from the site aurum3.com. The image in question is this URL:

  http://newtech.aurum3.com/images/robot-child-cb2.jpg

  This site has been password protected now and so when you try to pull up this image, it also pulls up a password prompt. If you remove this widget under Appearance >> Widgets, you can remove it.

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  dccohen · Member · Aug 21, 2013 at 2:58 am

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  Thanks very much!!!

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  amightywp · Member · Aug 21, 2013 at 3:30 pm

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  Not a problem! I hope you have a great rest of your week!