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WP sites hacked! - TopFreeware - 02-08-2017
Breaking news: So just 20hours ago worldwide a lot of WP sites got hacked.
One of my clients has been hit.
The hacker posts on your page
"Hacked By Not Matter who am i ~ i am white Hat Hacker please update your wordpress" and “Hacked by NG689Skw”
more here from actual WP forum
https://wordpress.org/…/topic/wordpress-4-7-1-hacked-by-ng…/
And this could be why?
https://blog.sucuri.net/2017/02/content-injection-vulnerability-wordpress-rest-api.html
Make sure you have updated to version 4.7.2
RE: WP sites hacked! - Compton - 02-08-2017
thanks for shareing I am pretty have everything lock down like fort knocks
RE: WP sites hacked! - Britec - 02-08-2017
Yeah I know how that feels, my sites been hacked a number of times.
RE: WP sites hacked! - Donglailly - 08-29-2017
I have a small football site which is hacked in interesting way - only username and pass changed, nothing else. Rebuild it from scratch and was hacked the same way. WP is such a pain somethimes
