On Thursday, 2/23/2017 a client’s WordPress got hacked. It wasn’t even noticed until a significant amount of spam was observed to be spewing forth from the server at the end of March. Suffice to say, that one little hack resulted in another, then another, until there was the corruption of a whole lot of data. It is all patched up now, but I figured I’d share some of the most useful information on the subject. After all, WordPress powers over 20% of all websites these days: