Its not hacked, its just spammers who get around the spam prevention. Tons of other forums get this same stuff, maybe not other forums you are on, but if you google search it, it usually comes up in waves all around various forums.
So far we do not know how this new wave is getting through, we stopped this similar type of issue before and Jackie is looking into it.
I suspect they will be more aggressive this time of year. I have noticed that they really seem to try to get in when they think admins are less likely to be around. They do it at night, holidays, etc.
Even though it feels like it is a lot, we actually catch more than 90% of it before it ever gets posted for you to see, that is how aggressive they are. We use Akismet, Cloudflare and other professional services to attempt to thwart them. Unfortunately spammers are aggressive and they collaborate to find ways to get around blocks so it is a constant game of cat and mouse.
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