Directory hacked! How to make my directory secure?

[vickyji]

It seems that my directory (http://directory.meetadultpersonals.com/) has been hacked by someone. Today I tried to login as admin but i could not. It was giving password error, i am sure i was not giving wrong password.

Then I looked at homepage and all categories was disappeared/deleted -- and title and sitename was changed.

Whats this? Is it possible for someone to do all this? I am sure admin password is not so easily crackable.

I am sure i deleted index.php in install folder and config.php in install folder is at 644 permissions.

What else?

[David]

It looks okay to me. Maybe you fixed it now.
This isn't something that happens frequently.
We would probably need more info to help figure out went wrong.
Definitely get a good backup of your site before you do anything else.

[vickyji]

It was a fairly new directory butI lost my category structure :-(

And I didn't fixed it. And its not OK, my password is changed, categories are deleted, title and sitename are changed.

I am sure no one know or used my password, all is done in some other way.

And what info you need to figure what is went wrong?

And is there anyway I can get my structure back? :-/

[vickyji]

Oops, Whats this?

I just visited it again. And everything is fine.

How come?

Old password is working, Even it was giving password error 10 mins before :-/

[Optimit]

Sometimes MySQL goes down at your host and will make the site appear to be hacked. The categories will all be gone, and since there is no database, you wont be able to login. The design and structure will be there, but anything stored in the database will be gone.

[vickyji]

Exactly, When I tried to visit my another site it said "unable to connect to database"

Thanks Opti

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Yes, you did. ;-)