# How to… Know if I've Been Hacked — Nestor Angulo de Ugarte

> The three questions people ask most — how to tell if you've been hacked, what to do when it happens, and how to avoid it — with a gallery of real cases from years at Sucuri and GoDaddy, and a checklist of countermeasures.

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- Format: Conference Talk
- Event: [WordFest Live — January 2021](https://www.wordfest.live/2021/january/speakers/nestor-angulo-ugarte/)
- Location: Online
- Date: 2021-01-22 (January 22, 2021)
- Language: English
- Speaker: [Nestor Angulo de Ugarte](https://nestorangulo.pro/about/)
- Themes: Incident Response, Web Security, WordPress Security
- Video: [Watch video](https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7yugwn)

The three questions people ask most when they learn I work in cybersecurity: how do I know if I've been hacked, what do I do when it happens, and how can I avoid it next time? This session takes all three head-on, drawing on real cases from years working at Sucuri and GoDaddy Security.

A gallery of compromised sites trains your eye to spot the signs quickly. Each case teaches a pattern: what different types of infections look like in practice, and how to recognise them before a scanner does.

From there, a step-by-step checklist of countermeasures — the actions to take in the hours immediately after discovery, and what to put in place so the same attack becomes much harder next time.

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