When a website gets hacked in, it interrupts the business activities and negatively affects customers and causes malware and viruses to spread.
These are signs that the website have been hacked in:
- The website suddenly automatically redirects to another bad website without any user intervention
- The bad website that is redirected into contains malware and viruses, and scams.
- The password and username and email has been tampered with and changed
- The webpages itself have been tampered with to have unknown javascript code embedded inside the HTML coding
The best practice of defense is to use a different and strong password for each and every website. By re-using the same simple password across different websites, someone can hack in and change the user credentials and begin to tamper with website files that redirects users to a bad website to spread viruses and malware.
