Your blog was hacked: what to do?
If you see weird pics of ladies with dubious links posted on your blog out of the blue, hereās a step by step way of stopping this and preventing it from happening again that I think might work.
Important : this only works if you can still access your blog!
Changing your password is important, but it wonāt do you any good if your hacker still has an opened session on your blog and can still access it. So the first thing you wanna do is close your hackerās session.
For that you need to go in your blogās settings:
On the new page opened, scroll all the way down. There, you can see something called āActive Sessionsā. The first and oldest one (ācurrent sessionā in green) should be yours, the new one should be the hackerās session. To close your hackerās session, click the gray X next to it.
Now that their session is closed, they canāt access your blog anymore unless they enter the password again.
So donāt lose time, go all the way back up and change your password immediately. Make also sure your hacker didnāt change your email address.
Now you should be safe from your hacker. But it wonāt prevent you from getting hacked again.
If you really want to be safe from hackers, you should turn on the āTwo-factor authentificationā option (on the same page).
It requires you to enter your phone number, which is a bummer. But if itās turned on, everytime you wanna log on (so not if your session is already opened, but only if you log off and try to log on again), it will send a code on your phone that youāll have to enter (in addition to having a password).
That way if someone tries to hack you again, even if they get your password right, they wonāt be able to enter your blog without having that code.
There it is. I hope it will help some of you, since I see more and more people noticing blogs being hacked
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