Site got hacked.

Yesterday I noticed one of my PBN sites got hacked. Thankfully, it was a new site, less than 2 weeks old with only a few posts. But they cloaked the site and were auto generating pages in Japanese.

They set up Google search console and had several site maps submitted. Search console showed about 1,100 pages indexed out of over 5,000,0000 submitted. I had not previously had search console on this site as I don't on most of my pbns. But I wanted to see what they did so I set up a specific account to see.

By looking at the dates in search console and installs in wordpress it happened a out 3 days before I caught it.

Any one ever have this happen to them? If so how was linking out with so many 404 pages floating around in the serp? I currently have them as 410's so they will hopefully clean out faster.

Cant comment on your question. never had a site hacked. but are you using wordfence? mandatory plugin for any WP site. every day hundreds of brute forcers try to hack your site. all the wp hack tools are online for free for people who are interested in that subject.

uncutu said:

Cant comment on your question. never had a site hacked. but are you using wordfence? mandatory plugin for any WP site. every day hundreds of brute forcers try to hack your site. all the wp hack tools are online for free for people who are interested in that subject.

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Never heard of wordfence, but I will set that up on my site ASAP. Thanks. Sorry to hear about the hack, OP.