Fifteen hacked websites on shared hosting cleaned up over SSH with Claude
With SSH access, Claude found dozens of malware files on a hacked hosting account, removed them and reset WordPress passwords; Codex reinstalled core files.
Credits
- Reddit poster Desperate_Bank_8277 Source ↗
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The full story
The poster saw a 500 error on their website and found many unknown files with odd names in their Hostinger account, which held 15 or more sites. Hostinger told them to fix it themselves, and they were travelling away from their main computer, so they gave Claude SSH access.
Claude found tens of different malware files, guided them through the clean-up and deleted them, and changed the WordPress passwords with wp-cli. The poster then gave the same request to Codex, which also reinstalled the WordPress core files.
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Sources
From a short post by the maker, so the details are as they tell them.
- Reddit: i recovered my hacked hostinger hosting package (15+ WEBSITES) with claude and codexReddit poster: Desperate_Bank_8277Posted
The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.
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