Thread:Project:Support desk/Wiki hacked for info/reply (3)

MediaWiki minor updates come out around once a month - or less frequently. For me personally it takes less than five minutes to install such an update. Your current situation proves that security is a compelling reason to update. Not updating, knowing of the dangers, is negligent, if not grossly negligent.

You wrote that the hacker removed "all db entries after 9/9/2013". Content from the tables page, revision and text is unique. Content from these tables (page, revisions, text) cannot be rebuilt. Maybe from Google cache, but you know - that is not, what you want to do. Having a backup would be fine...

You can put those images, which are now missing in the DB, into a folder. Then these images can be imported using the maintenance script importImages.php.