Here are some signs of being hacked, see if any of the following signs apply to you:
- Automatic redirects to other pages
- Strange content or links on your website
- When opening page on the website, the browser asks for permission to download a plugin
- You cannot login to your Joomla backend anymore
- Your pages and posts have been deleted. This indicates that the database was hacked
- Your website has been sandboxed by search engines
- Your webpages are displaying database errors
- You see a ‘file not found’ error when trying to access a webpage. This may be due to a page being deleted
- When checking the source code, you see some strange JavaScript
- You see some extra files in your website directories
- Your template files have been recently modified (index.php, .htaccess, etc...)
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