I have had two WordPress blogs. That was in a time when I was doing almost no internet marketing, and until I found time to handle the situation (weeks later), these sites were penalized in the main search engines. They were not eliminated, however the ratings were reduced.
I back up my blogs regularly using a plugin WP DB Backup. I can always restore my website to the 13, if anything happens. I use WP Security Scan plugin that is free to scan my site frequently and WordPress Firewall to block asks that are suspicious-looking to clean hacked wordpress site.
Hackers do not have the power when you got all these lined up for your security, to come to a WordPress blog. You can have a secure WordPress account especially that one that gives big bucks from affiliate article marketing to you.
This is very useful plugin, protecting you against brute-force password-crack strikes. It keeps track of the IP address of every failed login attempt. You can configure the plugin to disable login attempts when a certain number of failed attempts is reached.
Black and whitelists phrases based on which field they appear within. (unknown/numeric parameters vs. known article bodies, remark bodies, etc.).
These are. Put a blank Index.html file in your folders, run your web host security scan and backup your whole account.