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Are you the owner of a WordPress Self Hosted Website Or Blog?
Do people sometimes tell you they can’t access your website..?
Has your high page rank disappeared or reduced significantly..?
Have you noticed lowered traffic stats..?
Are your adsense earning getting less and less..?
Have you seem strange files in your FTP..?
Are you losing money in revenue and you can’t really understand why…?
Can you occasionally see mysterious users in your dashboard users panel…?
Do some emails sent through the contact form seem to go astray…?
Are your RSS feeds working properly…?
Have you had difficulties upgrading a plugin…?
Does the automatic upgrade fail…?
Do you experience unusually long server downtime…?
Are your permalinks messed up…?

For anyone who’s experiencing problems like these (or any that have started over the last few months) and you are still running older versions of wordpress (prior to 2.8.3), you MUST read this security bulletin. (Relating to self-hosted wordpress sites only)

http://wordpress.org/development/2009/09/keep-wordpress-secure/

I manage about 30 wordpress websites. After having a few niggling problems like the network dropping out when I tried to publish a post, adsense revenues dropping, traffic stats plummeting, unusual files found in my ftp and sometimes seeing the evidence of mysterious entries in my dashboard users page, I finally realised My SITES HAD BEEN HACKED by the ‘wordpress worm’.

Not only my sites were effected though – most of my clients as well…and all were oblivious to the fact, yet several had complained about losing page rank etc

Please note – if you kept up to date with each new wordpress version as it was released, you are probably OK. But you really should be checking – and upgrading too.

If you’re concerned you may have something strange happening with your wordpress site or just simply curious, you can find out how I solved the problem when my websites got hacked…

Find Out If Your WordPress Site Has Been Hacked.