Some time yesterday, the 6th of September my account at my web host got hacked.
I had just spend the day upgrading from 2.1.0 to the 2.2.2, I also did change the admin.php to a new one as requested for security.
According to my host, mine was among others who were exploited by vulnerabilities on the website.
Has this happened to others? Will there be a fix?
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Some time yesterday, the 6th of September my account at my web host got hacked.
I had just spend the day upgrading from 2.1.0 to the 2.2.2, I also did change the admin.php to a new one as requested for security.
According to my host, mine was among others who were exploited by vulnerabilities on the website.
Has this happened to others? Will there be a fix?
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Maybe whole shared hosting got hacked? I would suggest moving to VPS.
My server also got hacked recently, two cs-cart sites, 2.1.4 and 2.1.2. Yet I did not figured how it happened, files added to 777 chmod dirs.
Yes, the whole shared hosting got hacked.
What spec. on the VPS do you recommend for a small site with small volumes?
Where was the hacked store hosted? In what country is this host company located? Please let us know.
Site hacked leave a bad impact on credibility. There is nothing worst that a customer walk to you trusting you know what are you doing and bamb!! the site is hacked.
Happened to me 1 time, and is a business killer.
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Where was the hacked store hosted? In what country is this host company located? Please let us know.
Site hacked leave a bad impact on credibility. There is nothing worst that a customer walk to you trusting you know what are you doing and bamb!! the site is hacked.
Happened to me 1 time, and is a business killer.
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It is hosted in the UK, Linux server (shared hosting). I've got very little info but apparently there were multiple accounts affected.
[quote]I've got very little info but apparently there were multiple accounts affected.[/quote]
That pretty well sums up that you might want to strongly consider looking for a better managed hosting company.
Would recommend also Cloud VPS hosting? Is it really safe?