A small portion of WordPress websites eventually get hacked. If you keep your site updated including the theme and plugins then you should be safe. But what happens if you do get hacked?
In rare malign cases, the hackers are trying to extract your customer’s personal info and they’re not going to leave footprints for you to discover. If your website will store sensitive customer information then you need to be sure your website takes extraordinary security measures before even launching the site. If these hackers do manage to get data from an insecure site and this becomes public knowledge, you’ll have to go into damage control mode. At this point, an insecure website will probably be the least of your concerns. Don’t store sensitive information on your website, but if you have to then be sure you have very strong security in place.
Most hacked WordPress sites are a bit more benign, however, and the hacking just makes your website serve malware (aka viruses) to the public. You’ll often become aware of this type of hacking because you or a customer/client will go to your website and the browser will warn you of a possible malware risk.
Rescuing a malware-hacked WordPress website typically involves creating a clean copy on another server, manually copying information from the old site to the new site, manually inspecting the copied information to be 100% sure it’s clean, launching the new site and deleting the old site. Due to the manual copying and inspection requirement, this can be a time-consuming process.
Crunch42 is happy to help you secure your website so that a rescue will never be necessary. But if you find yourself with a compromised website, we can fix that for you as well.