This time it is the Chaos Node that is hacked, not my Google account, which is a relief. Â It also looks like they have done nothing to deface my website. They have run some kind of script infecting a huge number of files in my Slice of Life blog. My storage provider, Dreamhost, has cleaned almost all of these. It seems it is a vulnerability in WordPress that has caused this. This is a recurring problem for WordPress, although it is the first time for me. Perhaps I should have continued to hand-code my website after all!
I have changed my password (since some guys in the UK have used it lately, according to Dreamhost) and switched from FTP to SFTP. That is a file transfer protocol where everything is encrypted, although I am not sure whether that will be of any help when WordPress plugins and themes are vulnerable.