Hi All,
I am the editor of iq4news.com, and I am in a big dilemma.
My developer is on holiday and this morning I found that my website was extra slow. It took each page about 5 mins to open, and sometimes never opened. So I contacted my hosting company, bluehost, and they told me a whole load of techy info that I did not understand, but the gist of it was that the site may have been hacked.
Here's a brief of info that I was giving but I do not understand:
- some sort of configuration number thing was changed to 666 so it was accessible to the world (database stuff that I dont get)
- database username was changed
- Said something about the database pointing to hostedresource.com and not what it should be.
We then spent the next 8 or so hours performing system restores to an earlier date (i.e. the last couple of saved back ups)
Once they did this the website went to offline/maintainance mode, and neither I nor bluehost have been able to change this.
At this point, they suggest I go to drupal forums for help because their is nothing else they can do.
Here's their message: