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[Solved] Hacked site

  • This morning, when checking my emails, I noticed that the account done through my website was failing to authorize. I didn't think too much of it, but decided to check my site anyway. Strangely enough, my site wasn't loading the style sheet. I contacted my hosting provider to ask why this might be, and they had a look into it, saying everything was fine on their end.

    Everything is certainly not fine. Currently my URL is being forwarded to this site: http://digitaljournalist.eu/

    Some people can still see my site, but it is an old version, and I think this is to do with the use of CloudFlare.

    I can log in via FTP and cPanel, and no files have been changed. And according to my domain name provider, the DNS records have not changed. I have since changed them back to my host directly, instead of CloudFlare.

    I have no idea how this has happened, and would love any insight if you think you might now what is going on.

    Thanks.

  • My hosting provider decommissioned the server my site was on…
  • Solved? Everything works for me.
  • @ChristopherBurton Yeah, back to normal now. Quite a few frantic hours of problem solving though.
  • So did you determine what it was? Was it Cloudflare that caused it or was it a problem with the server they decommissioned (or is that the same thing?)
  • @JoshWhite They turned off my server, somehow not realising I was still using it. As to why this caused another, completely different site to show up, I have no idea.