Server Hacked?? Concerned with drastic increase in sessions from Third World Countries

[reneewood]

The past week, I noticed a significant increase in visitors to my site, but decreased revenue, which is odd.  When I looked into the session detail, I'm seeing a huge increase in sessions from other countries. This is completely out of the norm for me.  I feel like there's bot traffic or malicious traffic. Or possibly that the Shopify server I'm on has been HACKED.

This is usual:

This is unusual:

This is very, VERY concerning.

[Made4uo-Ribe]

Hi @reneewood 

Have you check your store status? 

[reneewood]

It's good.  I think the Shopify server I'm on has been hacked.

[Made4uo-Ribe]

It is unlikely but I think you should check your referral site to see which links this customers are clicking. 

[reneewood]

Referral site?  How would I do that?

[Laza_Binaery]

Hi @reneewood 

First, I think is highly unlikely that a Shopify server is hacked. There would be a much worse issue than visits.

Visits can be from bad bots or some scripts that scammers use to check all Shopify websites. There is a lot, a lot of scam emails around.

From paying for a free theme to "experts" who can help you get 40K in sales in a week. Or just regular spam. Have you maybe received something similar, or clicked on some link in emails? Scammers do exchange/sell emails and emails just can increase.

[reneewood]

Thank you.  No, nothing like that.  It's just me and I'm really vigilant about phishing emails, etc.