[Skip to main content](#vessel-content) # Site hacked and settings in payment module changed ## - **[FYKN](/forum/user/4745-fykn "View FYKN's Profile")** - [![FYKN's Avatar](https://www.hikashop.com/media/kunena/core/svg/person.svg)](/forum/user/4745-fykn "View FYKN's Profile") Topic Author - [ Offline](/forum/user/4745-fykn) Less More - Posts: 8 - Thank you received: 0 - - 14 years 10 months ago [\#33882](#33882) by [FYKN](/forum/user/4745-fykn "View FYKN's Profile") *[Site hacked and settings in payment module changed](/forum/3-bug-report/33882-site-hacked-and-settings-in-payment-module-changed#33882 "Our site was hacked during christmas and our paypal payment module was changed so all payments and order e-mails and payments were passed on to a e-mail address similar to ours. Anyone else experience this? Are the hackers in this case targeting Hikashop or did they just happen to hack our page? Is there a security problem and how do we protect our site from this so it doesent happen again?")* was created by *[FYKN](/forum/user/4745-fykn "View FYKN's Profile")* Our site was hacked during christmas and our paypal payment module was changed so all payments and order e-mails and payments were passed on to a e-mail address similar to ours. Anyone else experience this? Are the hackers in this case targeting Hikashop or did they just happen to hack our page? Is there a security problem and how do we protect our site from this so it doesent happen again? Please [Log in](/login?return=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaGlrYXNob3AuY29tL2ZvcnVtLzMtYnVnLXJlcG9ydC8zMzg4Mi1zaXRlLWhhY2tlZC1hbmQtc2V0dGluZ3MtaW4tcGF5bWVudC1tb2R1bGUtY2hhbmdlZD90bXBsPW1hcmtkb3du) or [Create an account](/component/users/registration?Itemid=101) to join the conversation. - **[nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile")** - [![nicolas's Avatar](https://www.hikashop.com/media/kunena/avatars/resized/size144/users/avatar63.png?1793428657)](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") - [ Offline](/forum/user/63-nicolas) Less More - Posts: 86359 - Thank you received: 14293 - - 14 years 10 months ago [\#33885](#33885) by [nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") Replied by *[nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile")* on topic *[Re: Site hacked and settings in payment module changed](/forum/3-bug-report/33882-site-hacked-and-settings-in-payment-module-changed#33885 "Our site was hacked during christmas and our paypal payment module was changed so all payments and order e-mails and payments were passed on to a e-mail address similar to ours. Anyone else experience this? Are the hackers in this case targeting Hikashop or did they just happen to hack our page? Is there a security problem and how do we protect our site from this so it doesent happen again?")* It's not a security issue in HikaShop. Once a hacker has gained access to your back end, he can do pretty much anything and change your HikaShop configuration. A hacker can gain access to a website from many ways: if you use a simple password, it could just figure it out. So make sure that you use a complex one. he can use a hole in one of the components/modules/plugins/templates of your website or even joomla if it's not up to date. So you should not install extensions which are not widely used and if you don't use one, you should remove it. Finally, you should update joomla and the extensions on your website regularly. Also, there are security plugins/components that you can use to increase the security of your website: [ extensions.joomla.org/extensions/tools/security-tools](http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/tools/security-tools) Please [Log in](/login?return=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaGlrYXNob3AuY29tL2ZvcnVtLzMtYnVnLXJlcG9ydC8zMzg4Mi1zaXRlLWhhY2tlZC1hbmQtc2V0dGluZ3MtaW4tcGF5bWVudC1tb2R1bGUtY2hhbmdlZD90bXBsPW1hcmtkb3du) or [Create an account](/component/users/registration?Itemid=101) to join the conversation. - **[FYKN](/forum/user/4745-fykn "View FYKN's Profile")** - [![FYKN's Avatar](https://www.hikashop.com/media/kunena/core/svg/person.svg)](/forum/user/4745-fykn "View FYKN's Profile") Topic Author - [ Offline](/forum/user/4745-fykn) Less More - Posts: 8 - Thank you received: 0 - - 14 years 10 months ago [\#33886](#33886) by [FYKN](/forum/user/4745-fykn "View FYKN's Profile") Replied by *[FYKN](/forum/user/4745-fykn "View FYKN's Profile")* on topic *[Re: Site hacked and settings in payment module changed](/forum/3-bug-report/33882-site-hacked-and-settings-in-payment-module-changed#33886 "Our site was hacked during christmas and our paypal payment module was changed so all payments and order e-mails and payments were passed on to a e-mail address similar to ours. Anyone else experience this? Are the hackers in this case targeting Hikashop or did they just happen to hack our page? Is there a security problem and how do we protect our site from this so it doesent happen again?")* Thank you for the quick reply Nicolas, The password should be hard to figure out and we change them on a regular basis and we don't have many plug-ins installed so my guess it is joomla that we need to update ![:(](/media/kunena/emoticons/22.png ":(") Please [Log in](/login?return=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaGlrYXNob3AuY29tL2ZvcnVtLzMtYnVnLXJlcG9ydC8zMzg4Mi1zaXRlLWhhY2tlZC1hbmQtc2V0dGluZ3MtaW4tcGF5bWVudC1tb2R1bGUtY2hhbmdlZD90bXBsPW1hcmtkb3du) or [Create an account](/component/users/registration?Itemid=101) to join the conversation. 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