How do you recover from getting hacked?

[Dozzer]

So we know lots of people get hacked, companies get hacked, social media gets hacked and websites get hacked. But how do you recover from getting hacked?

 

[Boroku]

A lot of people don't, which is the sad part!

 

[Baley64bit]

Yeah I have never heard of someone completely recovering. I know someone who had a partial hack done to their forum and she lost 70% of the members because it was down for nearly 6 weeks.

 

[BriGuy]

I don't know if you can ever fully recover. Just make sure you have good backups of websites and start over. This is the world we live in now, may as well get use to it.

 

[Shortie]

I was once hacked and I never completely recovered which really upset me. The forum that was hacked wasn't too old but I had managed to get a lot of content and members onto the forum and that was what I lost. I eventually did pull back and re-open my forum a little time later but I always had worries and doubts about doing so.

 

[Christopher1]

I was once hacked and I never completely recovered which really upset me. The forum that was hacked wasn't too old but I had managed to get a lot of content and members onto the forum and that was what I lost. I eventually did pull back and re-open my forum a little time later but I always had worries and doubts about doing so.

Oh no! That's awful! I'm sorry that happened to you!

 

[xXInfectedXx]

Once my 00webhost account got hacked. I had a Minecraft website which was linked to a MC Server. I simply created the website again from scratch. Should of took backups!

 

[Friendly Survival]

Getting hacked and dealing with it can be stressful even for the "seasoned" website owners. Given it involves much more than "wiping it and starting from the latest backup" and even in rare instances all over. :frowning:

Here is the basis of what one should do when a hack occurred...

1. Keep it unaffected (containing it if needed of course) until you able to get it checked thoroughly on how it got in the first place, what it's impact, and if possible when it happened.
2. Once you completely cleared the scope of the hack.... Don't go for the backups just yet! Contain the point of attack and/or entry, and/or any other security breaches they taken advantaged of.
3. Only once your confidence of why, where and if possible when and that you contained it from happening again should you even think of grabbing the backup file.
4. With the above in mind now comes the "pain point" of determining how much to restore. Because if you restore too soon of the hacking you may have to do this all over again! Then obviously if you restore too little you will have to spend time and efforts (in some cases even money) to get back to where you were.

So in short if you haven't gotten hacked, don't wait to be! Lock down your website(s) before it too late, remember to run anti virus and anti malware (if the program doesn't do both) on your PC(s), and finally to keep your backups in at least 2+ separate places in case you do become a victim to a hacking.