How can I figure out if someone hacked into my blog?

[RU Rah Rah]

I checked my blog this morning and saw that a posting on a controversial topic had been deleted.

 

I've never accidentally deleted anything previously; in fact, I've never deleted anything. Just to see how complicated it was, I tried to delete an old and boring posting from last year. All kinds of "Are you sure you want to delete this?" prompts came up. After seeing that, I am 99.99% convinced that I didn't somehow do it accidentally.

 

I am not by nature a conspiracy theorist, but I am wondering if there's any way to check if someone hacked into my blog.

[ttsather]

I checked my blog this morning and saw that a posting on a controversial topic had been deleted.

 

I've never accidentally deleted anything previously; in fact, I've never deleted anything. Just to see how complicated it was, I tried to delete an old and boring posting from last year. All kinds of "Are you sure you want to delete this?" prompts came up. After seeing that, I am 99.99% convinced that I didn't somehow do it accidentally.

 

I am not by nature a conspiracy theorist, but I am wondering if there's any way to check if someone hacked into my blog.

 

Is your blog hosted by a major blog hosting service (blogger, wordpress)? There may be some sort of administrative support contact where they could check activity on your account.

[RU Rah Rah]

I checked my blog this morning and saw that a posting on a controversial topic had been deleted.

 

I've never accidentally deleted anything previously; in fact, I've never deleted anything. Just to see how complicated it was, I tried to delete an old and boring posting from last year. All kinds of "Are you sure you want to delete this?" prompts came up. After seeing that, I am 99.99% convinced that I didn't somehow do it accidentally.

 

I am not by nature a conspiracy theorist, but I am wondering if there's any way to check if someone hacked into my blog.

 

Is your blog hosted by a major blog hosting service (blogger, wordpress)? There may be some sort of administrative support contact where they could check activity on your account.

That's about what I figured. Presumably they will at least be able to show the activity in detail. (And who knows -- that might show that I somehow did it myself.)

[GoudaBrew]

Maybe you unknowingly violated one of their rules? You said the topic was controversial and maybe one of their mods took it down. I know little about blogging so maybe this doesn't happen.

[Katuluu]

Do you have a separate host for your account or are you using a free account? Free accounts would typically fall under whatever rules that blog (Wordpress, Livejournal, Twitter etc) and could be why the post disappeared.