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Websites being hacked & duplicated, what should we do?
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Hi, please help!
Our website was hacked and being totally duplicated. They even injected codes to intercept our orders. Although the codes issue had been solved, still there're two mirror sites out there.
When search for some of our key words, they even have good ranks. What exactly can we do to let Google ban those two sites.
Thanks in advance!
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Thank you!
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Please refer here https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/spamreport?hl=en&pli=1
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