Fixed Hack – Need Help Recovering Lost Posts

Your hosting provider may have kept backups of your database or may have even cached the database (until session was destroyed) so it may be a good idea to contact your hosting provider and ask them to give you a copy of your Database.

This would be my first idea.

download your database
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Backing_Up_Your_Database

delete all wordpress files except wp-content folder and wp-config.php
re-install 2.7.1
https://www.ads-software.com/news/category/releases/

import database
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Restoring_Your_Database_From_Backup

upgrade to 3.0

Thanks Richie –

Samuel – the instructions you provide make sense and I will follow them. Will this recover the lost work?

I don’t want to take any steps that will prevent me from being able to recover the posts. (It’s a lot of writing!)

Thanks fro clarification…

Harry

The entries will either be in the database, in which case it might recover them, or they have been deleted by the hacker, in which case they are gone, unless you have an earlier backup (or your hosting provider does.)