With so many publishers large and small running on the WordPress platform it is a natural target for hackers. The overall security of your site depends on a lot of factors, including the security protocol your hosting company implements at the server level. Some hosts are more secure than others. You should investigate your host for yourself.
Don’t take their, “we take the security of your site very seriously” corporate nonsense at face value. If lots of people complain about their sites being hacked and the common denominator is their host, well – that pretty much speaks for itself.
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