{"id":527,"date":"2016-09-30T09:27:38","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T09:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ahorseforonebin.co.uk\/?p=527"},"modified":"2016-09-30T09:27:38","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T09:27:38","slug":"wordpress-hacked-on-godaddy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ahorseforonebin.co.uk\/?p=527","title":{"rendered":"WordPress hacked on GoDaddy"},"content":{"rendered":"

During the very many changes to my tech and personal life over the last three years, I have had to let one website\/domain languish, ignored but not forgotten, over in my hosting account at GoDaddy.<\/p>\n

I still host three websites in that account:<\/p>\n

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  1. My music\/podcast website I have hosted for me since 2008(content and RSS & iTunes feeds in a customised WordPress development)<\/li>\n
  2. A third-party cookery\/recipe website that I have hosted for almost four years (content and RSS feeds in a customised WordPress development)<\/li>\n
  3. A third-party blog\/website that I have hosted for a friend for just over three years (content and RSS feeds in a customised WordPress development)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    While I have plenty of free time on my hands, I thought it would be a good idea to migrate the music\/podcast website content and iTunes feeds away from GoDaddy and in to my datacentre.<\/p>\n

    But when I viewed the domain and contents I noticed garbage text at the very foot of the front page, advertising drugs.<\/p>\n

    Damn it, I’ve been hacked!<\/p>\n

    And also, damn it, I’ve been hacked and haven’t noticed!<\/p>\n

    Curse me for taking my eye off the ball.<\/p>\n

    Curse me for being so busy.<\/p>\n

    Anyway, I am unpicking the hack and, as soon as I have finished this, I shall migrate this domain to my datacentre.<\/p>\n

    But I have spent some time wondering about the hack.<\/p>\n

    How come just one domain was successfully attacked, when there are other domains in the same hosting account?<\/p>\n

    So I googled the hackers content, that had caught my eye when I first spotted it.<\/p>\n

    And it showed up, word for word, in three other WordPress websites.<\/p>\n

    All of them hosted at GoDaddy (none of them were mine).<\/p>\n

    What are the chances?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    During the very many changes to my tech and personal life over the last three years, I have had to let one website\/domain languish, ignored but not forgotten, over in my hosting account at GoDaddy. I still host three websites in that account: My music\/podcast website I have hosted for \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-admin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahorseforonebin.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahorseforonebin.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahorseforonebin.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahorseforonebin.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahorseforonebin.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ahorseforonebin.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":528,"href":"https:\/\/ahorseforonebin.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions\/528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahorseforonebin.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahorseforonebin.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahorseforonebin.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}