Five? WOW, as I note in Part I, it happened to myself once and then another incident was my web-host had an incident and some of my sites came back but not all. When I asked they just shrugged their shoulders as to what happened (as to why not all of my sites were not restored) and pointed out it was my responsibility to keep backups of my sites.

I do not have a lot of exp with security on all of this, but the one thing I do, do is to immediately create another admin account and disable the “admin” user account. Another practice is to never put off the upgrade of WP. It is easy enough to do, and this is probably going to spur another series of posts on the importance of creating a separate test system, something I hint at in this series.

Very timely and helpful post. I know of 5 people this week who have had their blogs hacked and had to use their backup. Thanks for sharing your information. Have a great weekend.