In which I get hacked: Part 2 (restored after backup)

So I’m now working through Google’s Hacked Sites Troubleshooter: https://support.google.com/webmasters/troubleshooter/6155978.

I did not know about the site: search operator, so I followed their instructions, first looking using a site:ericasadun.com websearch, and then moving on to “fetch as google”:

Sure enough I found all those malicious sitemaps that were added this morning:

I returned to my search console and deleted them:

Damn right Skippy, I do. They’re gone now.

I then returned to the troubleshooting page and requested re-indexing. It still shows one of the sitemaps that doesn’t exist anymore (and yes I checked).

I’ll check back in tomorrow and see if the hacked sitemap is gone. I also requested the “reconsideration request” from https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/manual-action

Yeeps.

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