Exploited by hackers
12apostrophes looked a little funky yesterday.
As the blog is wont to do whenever I change anything, all the posts (temporarily) disappeared, and we had to run the site in the WordPress “Classic” theme.
I was updating to the latest version of WordPress to address a security flaw. An article I read pointed out that spammers had been hacking WordPress blogs and using them for nefarious spamming activities.
Ha, I thought. Well, I don’t think that’s happening, but I should upgrade anyway.
When I opened up my header.php file, I found hundreds of lines of text full of links to . . .