Will Your Wordpress Site Be Breached In 2019?
By Randy Reiter, CEO, Don’t Be Breached and Sql Power Tools
How do Hackers gain access to Wordpress confidential database data?
Wordpress runs 34% of the Internet. The New York Times, USA Today, CNN, Mashable, eBay, Spotify,
TechCrunch, CBS Local, NBC and many more use WordPress. One of the things that makes Wordpress
so powerful is the abundance of themes and plugins that assist in building a first class web site.
Over 50,000+ WordPress plugins are available from 3rd party organizations. A plugin is software
containing functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add
new features to WordPress websites.
The popularity of WordPress makes it a prime target for Hackers. Annually thousands of WordPress sites
get hacked (i.e. data breaches occur). Hackers are after the confidential data stored in the databases
that run WordPress web sites. Confidential database data includes names, addresses, payment
information and much more.