WordPress site Image Hacked used all my bandwith

  • Hi,
    My webhosting company just called me and told me that one of my images was requested thousands of times per second on a planed attack on my web server which ended up using all my bandwidth for the month.

    How can I prevent something like this from happening in the future? Thanks

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  • Not really a WordPress question this at all, but ah well.
    Google “.htaccess hotlinking” and you’ll find plenty of information.

    Something like this should help you:
    https://www.htaccesstools.com/hotlink-protection/

    Thread Starter greenhoe

    (@greenhoe)

    Is this a common thing? and do you think my site was picked specifically? Or is this more of a random thing?

    Hotlinking is very, very common. Malicious hotlinking, not so much.

    How do they know it was a “planned attack” and not the image appearing on Digg or some other similar high traffic site?

    Thread Starter greenhoe

    (@greenhoe)

    Because when I check the traffic it is being requested from random posts and not one specfic place like digg, and it is a just a background image and is the largest image file on the site.

    Do you think using the htaccess tools would help stop this? Thanks

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