{"id":22151,"date":"2024-03-05T11:46:22","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T09:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/?p=22151"},"modified":"2023-08-02T11:48:36","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T09:48:36","slug":"hacked-website-heres-how-to-fix-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/en\/hacked-website-heres-how-to-fix-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Hacked website? Here’s how to fix it!"},"content":{"rendered":"
When you have a hacked website, you naturally want to restore it to a good state as quickly as possible<\/a>. For businesses, the costs of a defective website can quickly add up, but even as a blog owner, you wouldn’t want your reputation on Google to be affected! A hacked website results in Google ranking you lower, provided that it is not restored within a reasonable time. This is to protect visitors and because Google only displays good sites in its search results.<\/p>\n There are many ways to achieve the same goal, and this applies to restoring your hacked website. We will describe some ways to restore your hacked website:<\/p>\n But first: make a complete backup of your hacked website and don’t forget to save the database!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n You can ask many hosting providers to restore a backup<\/strong> from before the website was hacked. You must specify the date and time, for example, from 7 or more days ago. (This may incur costs) Therefore, it may be better if you have the ability to create and restore backups yourself. After the restoration, quickly secure your website to prevent immediate re-hacking!<\/strong><\/p>\n After restoring the backup, you may have a website that is free from the hacks and modifications caused by the hacker\/hack script. However, as you can imagine, this is temporary, and the website is often hacked by automated scripts 9\/10 times, and they may visit your website again. Therefore, secure your website so that it does not encounter problems again.<\/p>\n As a programmer, you can locate and modify or remove the altered code (hacks)<\/strong>. Please note that this is not easy, as hackers or scripts often make many hacks, backdoors, and modifications once they have entered your website.<\/p>\nSeveral ways to restore the hacked website<\/h2>\n
1. A relatively easy way to temporarily restore the hacked website<\/h2>\n
\nBe aware that you may lose recent updates or pages.<\/em><\/p>\n2. If you can program, you can correct the modified files<\/h2>\n