I have had two WordPress blogs hacked into formerly. That was in a time when I was doing virtually no internet marketing, and until I found time to handle the situation (weeks later), these sites were penalized at the major search engines. They were not eliminated, no matter how the ratings were reduced.
Documents can easily get lost if you do not have good protection on your site. Some of those files might be stored in your computer and easily replaceable, but what about the rest of them? Where are you going to get them out of again, if you lose the first time to them? Especially fix malware problem is very important. Many times sites have made a number of files and have a good deal of data. Recreating all of that would be a nightmare, and not something any business owner would like to do.
Truth is, there is no way, if your website is targeted by a master of this script. Everything you are about to read below are some precautionary measures you can take to minimize the risk. If your WordPress site is well protected chances are a hacker would prefer choosing easier victim, another.
Recently, the site published a news article and of Reuters was murdered by an unknown hacker. Since Reuters is a popular news website, their reputation is already ruined because of what the hacker that site did. In the event you don't pay attention on the safety of your WordPress 20, Something similar may happen to you.
Now we're getting into matters. Whenever you install WordPress, you have to edit the document config-sample.php and rename it to config.php. You want to set up the database details there.
Oh . And incidentally, I was talking about plugins. When you get a new plugin, make sure it's a secure one. Don't install any plugin simply because the owner is saying on his site that plugin can help you do that or this. Use perhaps, or a test site to check the plugin get a software engineer to examine it. This way you'll know it is not a threat for your business or you.