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My drupal website has been hacked?!?
on: July 25, 2011, 22:11:49 PM
I've been playing around with google analytics today, and noticed I had an unread message. It appears my microphotography website had been suspected of being hacked, and it gave an example link to one of the dodgy pages:


Warning:potentially unsafe link, click at own risk
http://www.microphoto.co.uk/?qnw=96d6mz/

I'm guessing this has happened due to not updating the site in nearly a year and modules getting out of date etc. The thing is, I'm not entirely sure how to fix this. The page doesn't follow the usual drupal structure so I can't figure out what folder the page is in, and all the images are hotlinks to other sites so I can't easily find those files.

The only thing I can think to do is delete the entire site and databases, and make a redirect to a site that I actually do keep up to date. Any suggestions though are welcome, as that site does get probably the most traffic of all my websites!


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Re: My drupal website has been hacked?!?
Reply #1 on: July 25, 2011, 22:17:02 PM
I might not be right on this but:

I hope you have made regular backups of the site, personally i would just wipe it and reinstall the latest version, then upload the backup of the content to the new site.

And in future, make regular updates and backup often if adding frequent content.
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Re: My drupal website has been hacked?!?
Reply #2 on: July 25, 2011, 22:51:26 PM
I would write off that version and reinstall it for sure, or redirect it as you said before. Once hacked you can't really recover without a backup.

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