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Ye Olde
Date: 13 Feb 2019 23:22
Number of posts: 4

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Appearance on my home page of an attempt to install an unwanted ad module on ProPlus account Wikidot site

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Unwanted Ad Module imposed on my site! Have I been hacked?

Ye Olde 13 Feb 2019 23:22

So today I visited the home page of my Wikidot site "Music Industrapedia" and some one has imposed upon me or hacked my home page with the following code attempt insertion in the top left part of my home page…

[[module AdModuleAboveContent]]

This is outrageous if it's by Wikidot! I have a Pro Plus account or perhaps my site has been hacked.

My home page can be accessed by http://www.music-industrapedia.com/ or http://music-industrapedia.wikidot.com/

There is no changes listed in the history of the page that I can see. Has anyone else had this problem?

Regards

Simon R @ Ye Olde.

Ye Olde - Creator and Chief Admin of www.music-industrapedia.com (Global Music Industry Directory & Encyclopedia) hosted on Wikidot.

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Ye Olde 13 Feb 2019 23:40

Ok, I went to try an edit this page to add the new Search module (because the last one was failing - as per this post : http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-10296005/search-operation-timed-out#post-4152393), and when I re saved my home page this module message problem (in the above post) now seems to have disappeared!!!

Perhaps this was a problem within Wikidot itself and was fixed?

Anyway, the problem seems to have gone away.

Regards

Simon @ Ye Olde

Ye Olde - Creator and Chief Admin of www.music-industrapedia.com (Global Music Industry Directory & Encyclopedia) hosted on Wikidot.

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Re: Unwanted Ad Module imposed on my site! Have I been hacked?

$michal-frackowiak$ michal-frackowiak 14 Feb 2019 09:01

Hi, I am sorry about this issue, it was a temporary glitch with the new layout code we've just put and it lasted ~ 10 minutes, plus maybe a bit more for cached pages. It was a minor change, nothing changes regarding sites.

Best,
Michal

Michał Frąckowiak @ Wikidot Inc.
Visit my blog at michalf.me

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Ye Olde 16 Feb 2019 08:46

Thanks Michal. I am relieved to hear that it was something small and harmless like that.

Thanks for letting us know.

Simon @ Ye Olde.

Ye Olde - Creator and Chief Admin of www.music-industrapedia.com (Global Music Industry Directory & Encyclopedia) hosted on Wikidot.

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