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, hereâs 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 wonât 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 hackerâs session.
For that you need to go in your blogâs settings:
On the new page opened, scroll all the way down. There, you can see something called âActive Sessionsâ. The first and oldest one (âcurrent sessionâ in green) should be yours, the new one should be the hackerâs session. To close your hackerâs session, click the gray X next to it.
Now that their session is closed, they canât access your blog anymore unless they enter the password again.
So donât lose time, go all the way back up and change your password immediately. Make also sure your hacker didnât change your email address.
Now you should be safe from your hacker. But it wonât prevent you from getting hacked again.
If you really want to be safe from hackers, you should turn on the âTwo-factor authentificationâ option (on the same page).
It requires you to enter your phone number, which is a bummer. But if itâs 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 youâll 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 wonât 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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