Website, DB, & Software Developers

However this time I had a current backup and we were restored within minutes of discovering it.

They focus on WordPress installations - those have a separate login page - and seem to change some things in the database (probably via the WordPress admin menu - they don't seem to have gone in via the cPanel, at least they haven't screwed up anything there); they do change the index.php and the 404.php, which I assume you can do via WordPress admin. A couple of other small things. I think they just have a script that does all this.

But really, if it was just the average person running a WordPress site, they'd be hosed for a long time, maybe forever. And her site just has medical health info - nothing to do with middle east politics. Because of what I happen to do for a living I could fix it, but that's just a lucky coincidence.

I guess if I put myself back in my 15-y/o frame of mind (going back 35 years to do that) I can see the attraction, not unlike spraying graffiti I guess, but once you get to be a little bit mature, it just seems mean and pointless. Plus, this is more destructive than graffiti. Graffiti you can paint over, with something like this if you don't know how to bring back a website, that's years of work down the drain.