and how did you handle that and take care of it?

Secure it more of course, and reload the files.

Fortunately, I have no been hacked yet.

I was a couple years ago. Fortunatly I had a backup and was able to recover my website.

Knock on wood - none of my sites has ever been hacked. I've had some clients' sites get hacked but usually it was social engineering. One of my clients replied to an email from "Ebay" about his "Account information." That was about 3 years ago and he's still suffering from that ordeal. Just goes to show that the most effective hackers aren't even computer geeks neccessarily - they just have a good idea.

Anyway, back on topic. I've never been hacked but I am the only person with access to our sites. I change the passwords regularly and have a random password generator that creates long, secure passwords with symbols, numbers, upper & lower case, etc. I also try to patch software as soon as I see a new version is available.

My sites fortunatly im glad have not been hacked but one time i was on a P2P network and somehow my PC was being hacked.. because a mess load of crap was going on im not sure what was going on but im positive i was being hacked... the moniter kept turning on and off and the cd drive openedand closed my entire HDD deleted itself and more... so i took it in and they told me no viruses.. so they said u had to have been hacked or messed with your PC somehow on your own

Someone managed to exploit a script on one of my sites, install some sort of web-based FTP, and change the Google Ads to their own.

Of course I reported it to Google and had it all fixed.

never...

People tried several times to hack my musician board but as of now hadn't have any luck :devil:

My main site (MTB-Wales.com) was hacked a while ago when another user on the same server had forgotten to upgrade their copy of AWStats.

As a result, the hacker got into the box and wiped every index.* file on the machine, including mine.

Fortunately I had a back-up and figured out a way of blocking the attack.

I have by my dad, he hijacked my PayPal, all my email accouts, and my server just to show me he could. I got own3d.

An old phpBB forum that I haven't even looked at for a few months was "hacked" by robotic members posting all sorts of illegal stuff. I just closed the forum.

Never had anything up long enough to be worth hacking, but a friend's site got did recently. Someone came in dropped us from admin to member and added their adsense to the top of the site. Wasn't very well done though as we hadn't had adsense there to start with so we noticed something wrong first time on the site before we noticed we'd lost admin access. A quick reset of the usergroups in the database, banning of the users IP and two emails (one to google and one to the school) and problem seems fixed.

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An old phpBB forum that I haven't even looked at for a few months was "hacked" by robotic members posting all sorts of illegal stuff. I just closed the forum.

That's not being hacked really. It's just spam bots that attack forums, blogs, and anything with a comment form.

One of my sites got hacked really hard. It was flucked up for a long time and killed my income. I went from an easy 5$ a day to 1-2$. You can imagine how pissed I was.

I've had a few of my older sites DDOSed a couple of times, and one really old phpBB forum defaced, although I didn't really see the point in it as it only had abour three members, and had been up a couple of hours. I simply uninstalled and reinstalled it.
Never had anything too bad/serious happen though. I guess I've been pretty lucky.

That's not too bad.
Make sure you have backups all the time; that really helps.

Yes, My successful forums has been hacked due to the security holes of phpBB

Yep! I learned about chmod'ing directories as a n00b... lol

I also learned about social engineering tactics online haha... luckily, I haven't been hacked in a while. *crosses fingers*