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Damn WordPress Hackers!

July 16th, 2008 by Amir Ahmad Read more about Site Design

Thanks to some of you, we just real­ized that our Word­Press instal­la­tion is vul­ner­a­ble and we’re cur­rently fig­ur­ing out what that spe­cific issue is. We sin­cerely apol­o­gize for incon­ve­nienc­ing you with hacked, spam-infested posts, and we’ll share the lessons learned with you once this is settled.

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Amir Ahmad Having been invited for conferences co-organized by Harvard University and attended international ones, Amir is a blogaholic and a passionate observer of the blogosphere who's built a number of successful blogs. On top of that, he's obviously a full-time web junkie at MindValley where he focuses on blogging, SEO and social media marketing trends.

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14 Responses to “Damn WordPress Hackers!”

  1. July 17th, 2008 at 10:50 am Internet Marketing Uncut

    Didn’t know peo­ple could hack word­press! Thats a pain!

  2. July 22nd, 2008 at 10:51 pm CrustyAdmin

    Word­press is hacked all the damn time. It’s like phpbb used to be, swiss cheese.

  3. August 1st, 2008 at 1:59 am free email

    Which dis­tri­b­u­tion are we talk­ing about? ver­sion 2.6?

  4. August 26th, 2008 at 9:11 am freelance link builder

    Wow! Didn’t know hack­ers can wreak this kind of havoc on my word­press account. I think I might have to update the secu­rity on my blogs. Thank you for this bit of information.

  5. August 27th, 2008 at 11:41 am SEO

    Is word­press work­ing on this?

  6. October 11th, 2008 at 3:57 pm Blake_W

    The best you can do is gen­er­ate ran­dom pass­words (ie: E1962A0C) and update as soon as an update is released, any­thing else is wasted time and effort IMO.

  7. October 17th, 2008 at 4:27 am Internet marketing

    I cant believe

  8. October 28th, 2008 at 10:29 am Rick Allan

    Thank you very much for this tip!

  9. November 16th, 2008 at 7:24 pm Blog Picture

    Good ideas. Need to make exper­i­ment to see if the results are obvious.

  10. November 19th, 2008 at 6:16 am Landing Page Optimization

    I want to see how things can work with a threat of hack­ing, but any way we need to find out solu­tion between that

  11. November 24th, 2008 at 11:05 am Build A Profitable Email List

    in any type of account, reg­u­lary change pass­words and use sev­eral com­bi­na­tions of low­er­case and upper­case let­ters, make it alphanu­meric if allowed.

  12. February 10th, 2009 at 5:10 pm best internet marketing services

    Thanks for shar­ing the things. Word­press has so many advan­tages then any other blog thats why hack­ing is occurring.

  13. July 16th, 2009 at 6:59 pm Ben

    I think hack­ing hap­pens because word­press has so many tool and one of the big things, word­press blogs get cashed in Google very very good. So I think this is the rea­son word press blogs get hacked.

  14. August 19th, 2009 at 8:34 pm Greg's SEO Copywriting Services

    I’ll try to avoid word­press now; thanks for the tip!

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