{"id":1363,"date":"2020-06-06T17:00:26","date_gmt":"2020-06-06T09:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wesbytes.com\/guide\/?post_type=kb&#038;p=1363"},"modified":"2026-01-12T12:04:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T04:04:15","slug":"how-to-deal-with-this-site-may-be-hacked-message","status":"publish","type":"kb","link":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/kb\/how-to-deal-with-this-site-may-be-hacked-message","title":{"rendered":"How to deal with \u201cThis site may be hacked\u201d message"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>How to deal with \u201cThis site may be hacked\u201d message?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>You\u2019ll see the message \u201cThis site may be hacked\u201d when we believe a hacker might have changed some of the existing pages on the site or added new spam pages.<\/p>\n<p>As such, if you visit the site, you could be redirected to spam or malware.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-blog.getastra.com\/2021\/06\/this-site-may-be-hacked.png\" alt=\"site may be hacked\" width=\"530\" height=\"212\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>What to do when you see this message<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We recommend that you don\u2019t visit the website until this message disappears from the search result.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Remove this message from your site<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The \u201cThis site may be hacked\u201d notification won\u2019t be removed until the webmaster of the site takes action.<\/p>\n<p>Try these steps to fix your website:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Register and verify your site in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/webmasters\/tools\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Google\u2019s\u00a0Search Console<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Sign in to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/webmasters\/tools\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Search Console<\/a>\u00a0and check the \u201cSecurity Issues\u201d section to see details of sample URLs that might be hacked. Fix the security issue that allowed your website to be infected. Otherwise, your site is likely to be reinfected.<\/li>\n<li>Read our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/webmasters\/hacked\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">resources for hacked sites<\/a>\u00a0for detailed information on how to fix your website.<\/li>\n<li>Request a review in the Security Issues section in Search Console when your entire website is clean and secure. After we check that your site is fixed, we\u2019ll remove the \u201cThis site may be hacked\u201d message.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to deal with \u201cThis site may be hacked\u201d message? You\u2019ll see the message \u201cThis site may be hacked\u201d when we believe a hacker might have changed some of the existing pages on the site or added new spam pages. As such, if you visit the site, you could be redirected to spam or malware. What to do when you&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"kbtopic":[40],"kbtag":[1506],"class_list":["post-1363","kb","type-kb","status-publish","hentry","kbtopic-web-security","kbtag-site-hacked"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/1363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1363"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/1363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5900,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/1363\/revisions\/5900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kbtopic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kbtopic?post=1363"},{"taxonomy":"kbtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kbtag?post=1363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}